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ZTF Public Data Release 8
Matching support from the National Science Foundation MSIP program will enable public ZTF surveys, data releases, and annual summer schools.
Learn MoreZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation and a collaboration including Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Trinity College Dublin, In2P3, University of Warwick, Northwestern University and Ruhr University Bochum. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC and University of Washington.

A movie illustrating ZTF J1539+5027, a 6.91 minute orbital period double white dwarf binary which will be one of the strongest gravitational wave sources detectable by the Laser Space Interferometer Antenna (LISA). The conclusion of the movie illustrates the gravitational wave emission from this binary, which is causing it to undergo rapid orbital decay (see 









