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The Pan-STARRS wide-field optical/NIR imaging survey

Kaiser, Nick, Burgett, William, Chambers, Ken, Denneau, Larry, Heasley, Jim, Jedicke, Robert, Magnier, Eugene, Morgan, Jeff +2 more·2010·SPIE Proceedings

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Pan-STARRS is a highly cost-effective, modular and scalable approach to wide-field optical/NIR imaging. It uses 1.8m telescopes with very large (7 square degree) field of view and revolutionary1.4 billion pixel CCD cameras with low noise and rapid read-out to provide broad-band imaging from 400-1000nm wavelength. The first single telescope system, PS1, has been deployed on Haleakala on Maui, and has been collecting science quality survey data for approximately six months. PS1 will be joined by a second telescope PS2 in approximately 18 months. A four aperture system is planned to become operational following the end of the PS1 mission. This will be able to scan the entire visible sky to approximately 24th magnitude in less than a week, thereby meeting the goals set out by the NAS 2000 decadal review for a "Large Synoptic Sky Telescope". Here we review the technical design, and give an update on the progress that has been made with the PS1 system.

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  • The Pan-STARRS project, which has similar science goals to LSST, envisions a distributed aperture design where total system étendue is the sum of étendue values for an array of small 1.8 m telescopes.

    “We note that the Pan-STARRS project ( Kaiser et al. 2002, 2010 ) , with similar science goals to LSST, envisions a distributed aperture design, where the total system étendue is a sum of étendue values for an array of small 1.8 m telescopes.”

    From LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products (2019) · cites this paper as Kaiser et al. 2010

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Authors
Kaiser, N., Burgett, W., Chambers, K., Denneau, L., Heasley, J., Jedicke, R., Magnier, E., Morgan, J., Onaka, P., & Tonry, J.
Affiliations
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
Venue
SPIE Proceedings
Publisher
SPIE
Published
2010-07-16
Volume
7733
Pages
77330E
ISSN
0277-786X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2079595033
Cited by
508
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FWCI
22.66
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Keywords
Pan-STARRS, wide-field optical imaging, near-infrared imaging, CCD detector, Haleakala, telescope design, sky survey

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