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.
Contents
Parent page for the description of the observatory.
Planned contents:
- Facility design and construction
- The telescope, location, FOV
- Site quality: description and statistics
- 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
- Seeing - distribution function by filter
