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The Pan-STARRS telescope surveyed the sky in several different areas using various observing strategies.  The 3PI survey covers the 30,000 deg2 (3 steradians) of sky north of Declination -30º in 5 filters (grizy) with approximately 10 exposures per filter to a combined depth of approximately 21-23 mag.  The Medium Deep Survey covers 10 fields, each about 7 deg2, with hundreds to thousands of exposures per filter to reach a combined depth of 24–26 mag.  Other secondary surveys (M31 survey, ecliptic plane survey, celestial north pole) also were carried out.  The initial PS1 data release includes only the 3PI survey, but other data will be released as processing is completed.

 

Contents

Parent page for description of the surveys.  Outline of things to include:

  • Summary table:
    • Bright limits
    • Locations and areal coverage versus time
    • Data-taking statistics: numbers of visits, quality, etc.
  • 3pi Survey (3PI):
    • Definition in terms of coverage maps, depth, observing cadences
  • Medium Deep Survey(MDS):
    • Location on sky, depth, observing cadences

3PI Survey

The 3PI Survey covers the sky north of  -30º in 5 filters (grizy).  Individual pointing exposure times in seconds are shown below.

grizy
4340453030

There are typically a dozen pointings in each filter, with the pointing centers dithered to enable the construction of a seamless image that fills in regions of bad pixels in most parts of the sky.  A typical point in the sky has about 10 pointings available.  The table below shows the mean number of pointings and its rms variation over the whole survey as a function of band (taken from an all sky-projection based on the summary stacks, which have a resolution of 4'' per pixel).

grizy
9.6±3.011.8±3.817.4±6.911.2±3.011.7±3.2

Below is a histogram showing the coverage distributions (blue - g; green - r; red - i; black - z; purple - y)

The median seeing in the images is ~1.1" FWHM (ranging from 1.3'' in g to 1.02'' in y).  The cumulative FWHM distributions in each filter are shown below (green - g; red - r;  orange - i; blue - z; yellow - y).

The 5σ point source depth is given in the table below for both the individual exposures and the stacked image sum.

Image Datag limitr limiti limitz limity limit
Single epoch22.222.021.520.819.8
Stacked sum23.423.222.722.021.1

Saturation occurs roughly at point source magnitudes of 14.5, 15, 15, 14, 13 for grizy respectively.

Medium Deep Survey

The 10 fields in the Medium Deep Survey are described below.  Each field was observed several times a night during the months of the year when it was observable.  In total there are hundreds to thousands of exposures in each of the 5 filters (grizy), enabling the construction of very deep stacked images.  The depth of individual exposures is the same as for the 3PI survey in the table above; the depth of the stacked image sum is shown below.

NameAlt NameRA (deg)Dec (deg)g limitr limiti limitz limity limitRA (J2000)Dec (J2000)Comment
PS1MD01XMM-LSS-DXS/VVDS-02h35.875-4.25025.925.826.025.624.302 23 30-04 15 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD02CDFS/GOODS/GEMS53.100-27.80025.625.425.825.324.103 32 24-27 48 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD03IFA/Lynx130.592+44.31725.825.826.025.624.308 42 22+44 19 00Radio Survey Field
PS1MD04COSMOS150.000+2.20025.825.725.825.424.010 00 00+02 12 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD05Lockman-DXS161.917+58.08325.825.725.925.423.910 47 40+58 05 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD06NGC 4258185.000+47.11725.825.625.925.323.912 20 00+47 07 00H20 Maser
PS1MD07DEEP2 Field 1/Extended Groth Strip213.704+53.08325.825.725.925.424.114 14 49+53 05 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD08ELAIS-N1-DXS242.787+54.95025.925.826.025.424.216 11 09+54 57 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD09SA22-DXS/VVDS-22h334.188+0.28326.025.926.125.624.122 16 45+00 17 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field
PS1MD10DEEP2-Field3352.312-0.43325.925.826.125.624.123 29 15-00 26 00Multi-wavelength Survey Field

The detection limits come from a 2015 January analysis by Nigel Metcalfe and will probably change in the final processing.  They are 5-sigma point source detection limits calculated from the databases by measuring (roughly) where psfflux_err/psfflux=0.2.

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