[archived] Dynamic Sky: Palomar Transient Factory

Shri Kulkarni, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, the McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Planetary Sciences at California Institute of Technology and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories and Micheslon Science Center, discusses the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF).PTF is an innovative 2-telescope system, designed explicitly to chart the transient sky with a particular focus on events which lie in the nova-supernova gap.