Pan-STARRS1: Operations; Public Data Release; Education and Outreach

Pan-STARRS1：运营；

• 批准号: 1238877
• 负责人: Kenneth Chambers
• 金额: $ 136.69万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1238877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pan; STARRS1; Operations; Public; Data

AST-1238877The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is an innovative wide-field imaging facility developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA). The first telescope, Pan-STARRS1 or PS1, began full operations in May of 2010. Operating the PS1 System includes managing the observatory, the telescope and its camera, an image processing pipeline, a relational database, and servers for the reduced science products. The PS1 Surveys include five specific studies covering a wide range of astronomical problems: 1) a ~30,000 square degree survey of the entire sky north of declination -30 degrees, 2) a medium deep survey of some 70 square degrees in well-studied fields at high galactic latitude, 3) a solar system ecliptic plane survey optimized for the discovery of Near Earth Objects and Kuiper Belt Objects, 4) a stellar transit survey towards the Galactic bulge, and 5) a deep survey of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) to detect microlensing events. The PS1 Surveys will extend the scientific impact of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with better image quality, depth, and area coverage, and will open up time-domain astronomy to enable the discovery of transient and variable phenomena. In order to make the PS1 data public and accessible as soon as possible and thus fully to exploit their scientific potential, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will create and support an archive of the PS1 data products that can serve the entire astronomical community.This award supports three primary activities for the PS1 project: 1) finish the last four months of PS1 operations and complete the survey; 2) re-reduce the entire PS1 data set with a final astrometric reference catalog and the best ("uber") photometric calibration; and 3) enable a PS1 archive at STScI capable of serving the calibrated image data as well as a database of all detections and ~30 billion astronomical objects. The impact of making the PS1 data products available to the astronomical and outreach communities cannot be overstated. The photometric data alone will provide a high quality standard reference within the field of view of any astronomical imaging program on any telescope observing within the PS1 survey region. The impact of SDSS has been enormous: PS1 can confidently be expected to be even more significant, due to its better spatial resolution and depth, wider and deeper components, and access to the time domain.

AST-1238877全景巡天望远镜快速响应系统（Pan-STARRS）是夏威夷大学天文研究所（IfA）开发的一种创新的宽视场成像设备。 第一台望远镜Pan-STARRS 1或PS1于2010年5月开始全面运行。 PS1系统的操作包括管理天文台、望远镜及其相机、图像处理管道、关系数据库和简化科学产品的服务器。 PS1巡天包括五项具体研究，涵盖了广泛的天文学问题：1）对10月-30度以北的整个天空进行约30，000平方度的巡天，2）在银河系高纬度经过充分研究的区域进行约70平方度的中等深度巡天，3）为发现近地天体和柯伊伯带天体而优化的太阳系黄道平面巡天，4）对银河系隆起的恒星凌日巡天，5）对仙女座星系（M31）的深度巡天，以探测微透镜事件。 PS1巡天将以更好的图像质量、深度和区域覆盖范围扩大斯隆数字巡天（SDSS）的科学影响，并将开辟时域天文学，以发现瞬态和可变现象。 为了使PS1数据尽快公开和可访问，从而充分挖掘其科学潜力，空间望远镜科学研究所（STScI）将创建和支持一个PS1数据产品档案，以服务于整个天文学界。该奖项支持PS1项目的三项主要活动：1）完成PS1最后四个月的操作并完成调查; 2）使用最终的天体测量参考目录和最佳（“超级”）光度校准重新缩减整个PS1数据集;以及3）在STScI启用能够服务于校准图像数据的PS1存档以及所有探测和~ 300亿个天文物体的数据库。 将PS1数据产品提供给天文和外展社区的影响怎么强调都不过分。 光测数据本身将在PS1勘测区域内的任何望远镜上的任何天文成像程序的视场内提供高质量的标准参考。 SDSS的影响是巨大的：由于其更好的空间分辨率和深度，更广泛和更深的组件，以及对时域的访问，可以确信PS1将更加重要。