Speaker
Mr
Ulrich Feindt
(Stockholm University)
Description
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has started operating earlier this year and is continuously discovering transients throughout the norther sky. Over the course of its three-year survey we expect to find thousands of supernovae, including 2000 type Ia supernovae at low redshifts (z < 0.1) with high-quality lightcurves needed for determining cosmological distances. Such a sample will be essential to anchor the Hubble diagram for upcoming large surveys of higher-redshift supernovae and will allow us to measure anisotropy and structure in the local universe at much better precision. In this talk I will present the predictions for the full three-year ZTF SN Ia survey as well as show its current status.
Primary author
Mr
Ulrich Feindt
(Stockholm University)
