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Users of the current PS1 DR2 data should be aware of a few issues and inconsistencies in the data.
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Another issue with the image astrometry is that the full skycell FITS images do not have a RADESYS keyword. That leads some software to incorrectly interpret the coordinates as being equinox 1950 rather than equinox 2000. At the moment the only known software with this issue is DS9 v8, but it could happen with other software as well. The fix is to insert the keyword RADESYS = 'FK5' in the header. FITS cutout images have a correct RADESYS keyword (as of 2019 March 13), but full skycell FITS images do not.
Yet another header issue with the observation times are given as international atomic time (TAI) rather than UTC time. Those times differ by the addition of leap seconds, which leads to header times that differ by 34 or 35 seconds from the UTC times. (See Rots et al. 2015 for more details.) The fix for this is to insert the keyword TIMESYS = 'TAI' in the header. FITS cutout images have a correct TIMESYS keyword (as of 2022 January 20), but full skycell FITS images do not. This is important if you care about timing at an accuracy of 30 seconds. Thanks to Peter Van Wylen for discovering this issue and identifying the fix.
The stack image pixel values have been non-linearly scaled using an arc hyperbolic sine (asinh) transformation that converts them to a pseudo-magnitude scale related to the asinh magnitudes (aka "luptitudes") that are used in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The scaling is determined by the BSOFTEN/BOFFSET keywords in the FITS header. Here are the relevant lines from the header of the skycell 1725.051 g-band image:
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