The Pan-STARRS1 Small Area Survey 2

Metcalfe, N.; Farrow, D.J.; Cole, S.; Draper, P.W.; Norberg, P.; Burgett, W.S.; Chambers, K.C.; Denneau, L.; Flewelling, H.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.; Magnier, E.A.; Morgan, J.S.; Price, P.A.; Sweeney, W.; Tonry, J.L.; Wainscoat, R.J.; Waters, C.

Abstract

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1) survey is acquiring multi-epoch imaging in five bands (gP1, rP1, iP1, zP1, yP1) over the entire sky north of declination −30° (the 3π survey). In 2011 July a test area of about 70 deg2 was observed to the expected final depth of the main survey. In this, the first of a series of papers targeting the galaxy count and clustering properties of the combined multi-epoch test area data, we present a detailed investigation into the depth of the survey and the reliability of the Pan-STARRS1 analysis software. We show that the Pan-STARRS1 reduction software can recover the properties of fake sources, and show good agreement between the magnitudes measured by Pan-STARRS1 and those from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We also examine the number of false detections apparent in the Pan-STARRS1 data. Our comparisons show that the test area survey is somewhat deeper than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in all bands, and, in particular, the z band approaches the depth of the stacked Sloan Stripe 82 data.

Citation

Metcalfe, N., Farrow, D., Cole, S., Draper, P., Norberg, P., Burgett, W., …Waters, C. (2013). The Pan-STARRS1 Small Area Survey 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435(3), 1825-1839. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1343

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 14, 2014
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 13, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 19, 2014
• Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Print ISSN: 0035-8711
• Electronic ISSN: 1365-2966
• Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 435
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1825-1839
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1343
• Keywords: Data analysis, Image processing, Catalogues, Surveys.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1468771