Dr Nigel Metcalfe nigel.metcalfe@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
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.
Authors
D.J. Farrow
Professor Shaun Cole shaun.cole@durham.ac.uk
Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology
Dr Peter Draper p.w.draper@durham.ac.uk
Senior Computer Programmer
Professor Peder Norberg peder.norberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor
W.S. Burgett
K.C. Chambers
L. Denneau
H. Flewelling
N. Kaiser
R. Kudritzki
E.A. Magnier
J.S. Morgan
P.A. Price
W. Sweeney
J.L. Tonry
R.J. Wainscoat
C. Waters
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 |
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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 |
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