Status and Early Science from the PS1 Science Mission

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #222.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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PS1, the Pan-STARRS Telescope No. 1 began the PS1 Science Mission May 13, 2009. Operations of the PS1 System, including the Observatory, Telescope, 1.4 Gigapixel Camera, Image Processing Pipeline , PSPS relational database and science specific software clients are presently funded for 2.5 years by PS1 Science Consortium.
The PS1 Surveys include: (1) A 3pi Steradian Survey, (2) A Medium Deep survey of 11PS1 footprints spaced around the sky; (3) A solar system survey optimized for Near Earth Objects, (4) a Stellar Transit Survey; and (5) a Deep Survey of M31. As of October, 2010, the PS1 3pi Survey has covered half the sky above a declination of -30 in five bands with 2 or more images. By the time of the AAS meeting, PS1 will have covered 0.75 of the available sky, or about 20,000 square degrees. The coverage, cadence, and data quality of the surveys and the current performance of the PS1 System will be presented. Early science results will be outlined. Transient data release to the community will be described, as well as the eventual release of all PS1 data.
The PS1 Science Consortium consists of The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Durham, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Los Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, and NASA.
The Pan-STARRS construction project is led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy with funding support from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory and contributions from the Maui High Performance Computing Center and MIT Lincoln Laboratory."

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