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This page describes the telescope and instruments used to obtain the data in the PS1 survey, including design and construction; the detectors; the filters used; and the observing strategies.

 

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Parent page for the description of the observatory.

The information for this page should be taken from Chambers et al 2016.  

Details about bad pixel mask should refer to Waters et al 2016. 

 

Planned contents:

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  • Facility design and construction
    • The telescope, location, FOV
    • Site quality: description and statistics, statistics (seeing, clarity, backgrounds)
  • Detectors
    • Description, numbering scheme
    • Unique qualities and relation to observing strategy and data quality
    • Dynamic range
    • Evolution of detectors over the survey period
    • Bad pixel masks
  • Filters
    • Selection criteria
    • Throughput curves
    • Comparison to nominally similar other filters
  • Observing strategy:  (UH)
    • Faint- and bright limits.
    • Areal coverage versus time 
    • Distributions of data taking: Numbers of visits; ... 
    • Significant subsets and definitions
      • 3PI.  (cut & paste?  Smart/Chambers --> DRS)
      • Medium Deep Fields.
    Seeing - distribution function by filter

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