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BlackGEM (Blagorodnova).
Wide field and shallow optical synoptic surveyor.
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Dark Energy
Camera surveys (Dawson).
A 5-sq degree imager on
a 4-m telescope. Available now for all sorts of astrophysical
projects.
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DESI (Nugent).
Massively multiplexed (5000 channels) optical spectrograph with
8 sq degrees.
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Gattini IR (De).
Wide field and shallow NIR synoptic surveyer.
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KMT Network
(Sang-Chul KIM)
A trio of 1.6-m telescopes (Chile, Australia,
South Africa) equipped with moderate field (2 sq degree) fine
optical imagers and optimized for 24-hour coverage of the
Southern Sky (particularly the Bulge).
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KPED (Kitt Peak Electron
Multiplying CCD Demonstrator) (Coughlin & Kulkarni)).
A dedicated optical imager suitable for fast framing (electron
multiplying CCD) on the robotic Kitt Peak 84-inch telescope.
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The Kyoto 3.8-m
Telescope (Maeda).
A spanking new, moderate size (3.8-m) fast slewing large
telescope right here in Japan.
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LAMOST (Mao).
Large field of view (5 sq deg), massively multipliexed (4000
channels) optical spectropgrah behind 4-m Schimidt type telescope.
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MAXI (Kawai).
Wide field and shallow X-ray synoptic surveyor.
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MOA (Sumi).
A 1.8-m telescope equipped 2.2 sq degree fine optical
imager, located in New Zealand, and dedicated for micro-lensing
studies.
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PFS (Yasuda).
Moderate field (1.3 sq deg), massively multiplexed (2394)
and high sensitivity 0.38-1.26 micron spectrograph on 8-m
telescope.
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PRIME (Sumi).
A 1.8-m telescope equipped with the widest field NIR imager
(1.5 sq deg) and also a spectrograph, located in South
Africa.
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SDSS Phase V
(Konidaris & Kollmeier).
The next phase of SDSS aimed
at "dynamic highly multiplexed stellar and interstellar"
spectroscopy.
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SEDM
(Spectral Energy Distribution Machine) (Konidaris).
An IFU spectrograph optimised for transient classification
and high operational efficiency. Presentation by the PI of
SEDM.
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SEDM:
Performance & DRP (Neill).
The current performance
and data reduction pipeline (DRP) of the SEDM (after upgrade
and fixes). Presentation by the Project Scientist.
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Supernova Surveys from China (Wang).
A variety of SN searches
from China.
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Subaru
Transient Surveys (Tominaga).
Deep (25 mag or
better) nightly (including intra-night) surveys for shock
breakout and super-luminous supernovae.
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Spektr Roengten Gamma
(Rau).
Synoptic X-ray survey of the sky. Rosat on
steroids. Imminent launch.
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TESS
(provided by Blagorodnova).
Wide field and high precision
survey of the bright (I<14 mag) sky. Aimed at extra-solar planes.
Unique. Already working.
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Tomo-e Gozen
(provided by Tanaka).
Wide field but second timescale
survey of the optical sky. Unique. Working already.
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Zwicky Transient
Facility: Coaddition Facility (Goldstein).
Coadding allows a good match between ZTF & DESI and perhaps
even ZTF & PFS.
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Zwicky Transient
Facility: Science (Yan).
Science from ZTF.
# For Unix aficionados:
# Problem: how to automatically "build a book" from a website?
# (you can have any ordering by using sort but here it is by alpha)
# change directory to Files4Facilities/
$ wkhtmltopdf ../IndexedFacilities.html AAATable.pdf
$ pdfunite $(ls -1 *.pdf | xargs) ../AllFacilities.pdf