The Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium have carried out a set of imaging surveys using the 1.4 giga-pixel GPC1 camera on the PS1 telescope. As this camera is composed of many individual electronic readouts, and covers a very large field of view, great care was taken to ensure that the many instrumental effects were corrected to produce the most uniform detector response possible. We present the image detrending steps used as part of the processing of the data contained within the public release of the Pan-STARRS1 Data Release 1 (DR1). In addition to the single image processing, the methods used to transform the 375,573 individual exposures into a common sky-oriented grid are discussed, as well as those used to produce both the image stack and difference combination products.
@article{arxiv.1612.05245,
title = {Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking},
author = {C. Z. Waters and E. A. Magnier and P. A. Price and K. C. Chambers and W. S. Burgett and P. Draper and H. A. Flewelling and K. W. Hodapp and M. E. Huber and R. Jedicke and N. Kaiser and R. -P. Kudritzki and R. H. Lupton and N. Metcalfe and A. Rest and W. E. Sweeney and J. L. Tonry and R. J. Wainscoat and W. M. Wood-Vasey and PS1 Builders},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05245},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
21 pages, 21 figures, Paper III of Pan-STARRS DR1 public data release documentation