Welcome to Fritz

Science data platform of the Zwicky Transient Facility. Managed by Caltech, hosted on Google Cloud in the US.

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SkyPortal team

Michael Coughlin University of Minnesota
Camille Douzet IJCLab
Antoine Le Calloch University of Minnesota
Thomas Culino Caltech
Leo Conforti University of Minnesota
Stéfan van der Walt UC Berkeley
Joshua Bloom UC Berkeley
Leo Singer NASA Goddard
Sarah Antier IJCLab
Pete Bachant Caltech
Matthew Graham Caltech
Mansi Kasliwal Caltech
Sneha Maharjan University of Minnesota
Sushant Sharma Chaudhary University of Minnesota

Other instances

Orcus ZTF, LSST and DECam alerts filtered by BOOM. Managed by the University of Minnesota, hosted on Google Cloud in the US. orcusgate.org ICARE ZTF and LSST alerts. Managed by IJCLab (Université Paris-Saclay), hosted in France. skyportal-icare.ijclab.in2p3.fr

About Fritz

Fritz is an open source codebase that serves as a dynamic collaborative platform for time-domain astronomy. It is being jointly developed at Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and Université Paris-Saclay.

Fritz integrates and extends two projects, BOOM & SkyPortal, and has the functionality of an alert broker, a multi-survey data sink/archive, a marshal, and a target and observation/follow-up management tool.

fritz.science Documentation API GitHub

Citing Fritz

A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy Coughlin, Michael W., et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267, 2, Jul 2023 doi:10.3847/1538-4365/acdee1 SkyPortal: An Astronomical Data Platform Stéfan J. van der Walt, Arien Crellin-Quick, Joshua S. Bloom Journal of Open Source Software, 4(37) 1247, May 2019 doi:10.21105/joss.01247 Real-bogus classification for the Zwicky Transient Facility using deep learning Duev, Dmitry A., et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(3) 3582-3590, 2019 doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2357 The GROWTH marshal: a dynamic science portal for time-domain astronomy Kasliwal, M., et al. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131(997) 038003, Feb 2019 doi:10.1088/1538-3873/aafbc2 Phenomenological classification of the Zwicky Transient Facility astronomical event alerts Dmitry A. Duev & Stéfan J. van der Walt ACAI classifiers, Nov 2021 arXiv:2111.12142