Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.0802j&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #8.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.421
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Pan-STARRS prototype telescope (PS1) located on Haleakala, HI, will begin survey operations early in 2008. The PS1 facility is a 1.8m telescope with a 7 deg2 field of view outfitted with the world's larger camera containing 1.44 billion pixels that can be read out in less than 5 seconds. To place the scale of this camera in perspective, consider that if each pixel was one square foot the entire camera would cover almost 50 square miles. With a limiting magnitude of r 22.7 and more than 65% of the survey time performed in a cadence suitable for the discovery of solar system objects PS1 will quickly become the world's leading system for asteroid discoveries. I will present the predicted NEO surveying capability of this system including the advanced Moving Object Processing System used to identify, link, and fit orbits to solar system objects.
Jedicke Robert
Pan-STARRS
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