PS1: The Pan-STARRS1 facilities and hardware

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.  The starting point for the PS1 data archive is at The Pan-STARRS1 data archive home page.

Parent page for the description of the observatory.

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

Planned contents:

• Facility design and construction
• Detectors
• Filters
• Observing strategy
• Surveys

Here is from PS1 dox summary:

The hardware and the survey operations (scheduling) and cadence is described in Chambers 2016. 

• Design, construction (UH: Ken Chambers):
  
  • Telescope, location
  • FOV
  • Image quality
  • Site quality (seeing, clarity, backgrounds)
• Detectors:   (UH, Tonry?)
  
  • Relation to data quality
  • Dynamic range (depth tables)
• Filters: (UH data; Scolnic)
  
  • Illustration
  • Compare to others that are nominally the same or similar. 
• Observing strategy:  (UH)
  
  • Faint- and bright limits.
  • Areal coverage versus time 
    
  • Distributions of data taking: Numbers of visits; ... 
    
  • Surveys (Ken?, Stephen?)
    
    • 3PI. (cut & paste?  Smart/Chambers --> DRS)
      
    • Medium Deep Fields.