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The unblinking eye on the sky

From near-Earth asteroids to superluminous supernovae and gravitational wave counterparts, the Zwicky Transient Facility will soon scan for transient phenomena, explain Eric Bellm and Shrinivas Kulkarni.

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Figure 1: The ZTF camera.

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Bellm, E., Kulkarni, S. The unblinking eye on the sky. Nat Astron 1, 0071 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0071

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