Pan-STARRS
(Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System)
(set of survey telescopes)
Pan-STARRS
(Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System)
is a system of telescopes continually observing the sky to identify
near-Earth objects (NEOs).
It is located at the Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii.
The telescopes (PS1, Pan-STARRS 1 from 2010 and
PS2 from 2014) are 1.8-meter Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes with 1.4-billion-pixel
cameras (GPC for Gigapixel Camera), each with a
4.9 square degree field of view.
Discoveries include near-Earth objects and other solar system
bodies, variable stars and supernovae.
The designator PSO is used for Pan-STARRS discoveries.
In addition to its NEO survey, Pan-STARRS has ongoing survey projects
looking for various kinds of transients, which is possible because of its
very large field of view. It has imaged the sky with a number of
filters (some from the ugriz photometric system, some
Pan-STARRS-specific), and specific data may refer to a filter, e.g.,
the ugriz R band.
(array,survey,near-Earth objects,transients,Hawaii,ground,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS
https://neo.ifa.hawaii.edu/
http://www2.ifa.hawaii.edu/research/Pan-STARRS.shtml
https://panstarrs.stsci.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007IAUS..236..341J/abstract
https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/grbtu-c06/chambers/pdf/KChambers_KITP.pdf
Prefix | Example | | |
PS1 | PS1-10jh | PS1-discovered transients | |
PSO | PSO J246.4222+15.4698 | | |
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Referenced by pages:
ATLAS survey
etendue (AΩ)
field of view (FOV)
Haleakala Observatory
Medium Deep Survey (MDS)
near-Earth object (NEO)
Pantheon
supernova survey
transient astronomy
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