The Pan-STARRS Optical Survey Telescope Project

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...20112207k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #122.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1304

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The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii is developing a large optical survey telescope system. Currently conceived of as an array of four 1.8m class telescopes, the system will have a very wide field of view, and massive CCD detectors with rapid read-out. The system will repeatedly scan the entire sky on a rapid cadence, and will be uniquely capable of detecting faint transient, variable or moving objects. For survey work, Pan-STARRS will be more powerful than all existing telescopes combined. A major goal for the project is to detect potentially dangerous asteroids, and Pan-STARRS will be able to push the detection limit to smaller sizes than those accessible to existing search programs. In addition, the data will used to address a wide range of astronomical problems, including studies of the Solar System, the Galaxy, and the Cosmos. The science objectives and also the performance goals of the project will be described.

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