The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
- Author(s): Chambers, KC
- Magnier, EA
- Metcalfe, N
- Flewelling, HA
- Huber, ME
- Waters, CZ
- Denneau, L
- Draper, PW
- Farrow, D
- Finkbeiner, DP
- Holmberg, C
- Koppenhoefer, J
- Price, PA
- Rest, A
- Saglia, RP
- Schlafly, EF
- Smartt, SJ
- Sweeney, W
- Wainscoat, RJ
- Burgett, WS
- Chastel, S
- Grav, T
- Heasley, JN
- Hodapp, KW
- Jedicke, R
- Kaiser, N
- Kudritzki, R-P
- Luppino, GA
- Lupton, RH
- Monet, DG
- Morgan, JS
- Onaka, PM
- Shiao, B
- Stubbs, CW
- Tonry, JL
- White, R
- Bañados, E
- Bell, EF
- Bender, R
- Bernard, EJ
- Boegner, M
- Boffi, F
- Botticella, MT
- Calamida, A
- Casertano, S
- Chen, W-P
- Chen, X
- Cole, S
- Deacon, N
- Frenk, C
- Fitzsimmons, A
- Gezari, S
- Gibbs, V
- Goessl, C
- Goggia, T
- Gourgue, R
- Goldman, B
- Grant, P
- Grebel, EK
- Hambly, NC
- Hasinger, G
- Heavens, AF
- Heckman, TM
- Henderson, R
- Henning, T
- Holman, M
- Hopp, U
- Ip, W-H
- Isani, S
- Jackson, M
- Keyes, CD
- Koekemoer, AM
- Kotak, R
- Le, D
- Liska, D
- Long, KS
- Lucey, JR
- Liu, M
- Martin, NF
- Masci, G
- McLean, B
- Mindel, E
- Misra, P
- Morganson, E
- Murphy, DNA
- Obaika, A
- Narayan, G
- Nieto-Santisteban, MA
- Norberg, P
- Peacock, JA
- Pier, EA
- Postman, M
- Primak, N
- Rae, C
- Rai, A
- Riess, A
- Riffeser, A
- Rix, HW
- Röser, S
- Russel, R
- Rutz, L
- Schilbach, E
- Schultz, ASB
- Scolnic, D
- Strolger, L
- Szalay, A
- Seitz, S
- Small, E
- Smith, KW
- Soderblom, DR
- Taylor, P
- Thomson, R
- Taylor, AN
- Thakar, AR
- Thiel, J
- Thilker, D
- Unger, D
- Urata, Y
- Valenti, J
- Wagner, J
- Walder, T
- Walter, F
- Watters, SP
- Werner, S
- Wood-Vasey, WM
- Wyse, R
- et al.
Abstract
Pan-STARRS1 has carried out a set of distinct synoptic imaging sky surveys including the $3\pi$ Steradian Survey and the Medium Deep Survey in 5 bands ($grizy_{P1}$). The mean 5$\sigma$ point source limiting sensitivities in the stacked 3$\pi$ Steradian Survey in $grizy_{P1}$ are (23.3, 23.2, 23.1, 22.3, 21.4) respectively. The upper bound on the systematic uncertainty in the photometric calibration across the sky is 7-12 millimag depending on the bandpass. The systematic uncertainty of the astrometric calibration using the Gaia frame comes from a comparison of the results with Gaia: the standard deviation of the mean and median residuals ($ \Delta ra, \Delta dec $) are (2.3, 1.7) milliarcsec, and (3.1, 4.8) milliarcsec respectively. The Pan-STARRS system and the design of the PS1 surveys are described and an overview of the resulting image and catalog data products and their basic characteristics are described together with a summary of important results. The images, reduced data products, and derived data products from the Pan-STARRS1 surveys are available to the community from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at STScI.