The Pan-STARRS1 Small Area Survey 2
Abstract
The Pan-STARRS1 survey is acquiring multi-epoch imaging in 5 bands (grizy) over the entire sky north of declination -30deg (the survey). In July 2011 a test area of about 70 sq.deg. was observed to the expected final depth of the main survey. In this, the first of a series of papers targetting 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.6368,
title = {The Pan-STARRS1 Small Area Survey 2},
author = {N. Metcalfe and D. J. Farrow and S. Cole and P. W. Draper and P. Norberg and W. S. Burgett and K. C. Chambers and L. Denneau and H. Flewelling and N. Kaiser and R. Kudritzki and E. A. Magnier and J. S. Morgan and P. A. Price and W. Sweeney and J. L. Tonry and R. J. Wainscoat and C. Waters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6368},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
17 pages, 24 figures. Published by MNRAS, published version available at: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/435/3/1825