The SNAD Viewer: Everything You Want to Know about Your Favorite ZTF Object

By Konstantin Malanchev, on behalf of the SNAD team

Diagram of the service infrastructure.

The SNAD viewer paper is now published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific!

In the paper, we describe the SNAD Viewer, a web portal for astronomers which presents a centralized view of individual objects from the Zwicky Transient Facility's (ZTF) data releases, including data gathered from multiple publicly available astronomical archives and data sources. Initially built to enable efficient expert feedback in the context of adaptive machine learning applications, it has evolved into a full-fledged community asset that centralizes public information and provides a multi-dimensional view of ZTF sources. The Viewer has been instrumental in highlighting the crucial roles domain experts retain in the era of big data in astronomy. Given the arrival of the upcoming generation of large-scale surveys, we believe similar systems will be paramount in enabling an optimal exploitation of the scientific potential enclosed in current terabyte and future petabyte-scale data sets.

Please, enjoy the viewer at https://ztf.snad.space.