Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)#
What is Pan-STARRS?#
Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a system for wide-field astronomical imaging developed and operated by the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) is the first part of Pan-STARRS to be completed and is the basis for both Data Releases 1 and 2 (DR1 and DR2). The PS1 survey used a 1.8 meter telescope and its 1.4 Gigapixel camera (GPC1; see PS1 GPC1 camera) to image the sky in five broadband filters (g, r, i, z, y). The PS1 Science Consortium funded the operation of the Pan-STARRS1 telescope, situated at Haleakala Observatories near the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii, for the purposes of astronomical research. The PS1 consortium is made up of astronomers and engineers from 14 institutions from six countries.
The data from PS1 are archived at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore Maryland, and can be accessed through MAST, the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (see the Pan-STARRS1 Data Archive). Additional support for the PS1 public science archive is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
For Further Reading#
The Pan-STARRS1 Data Archive at MAST website contains summary information, data product overviews, descriptions of MAST tools, and tutorials on how to interact with PS1 data at MAST.
For more general information regarding Pan-STARRS1, see the MAST Pan-STARRS1 homepage, and the Pan-STARRS system homepage.
Notebooks in this Chapter#
Notebook / Tutorial Set |
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Tutorial demonstrating how to access Pan-STARRS 1 Data Release 2 catalogs via a Virtual Observatory standard Table Access Protocol (TAP) service at MAST. |
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Tutorial of how to programmatically retrieve Pan-STARRS1 image cutouts using the PS1 Image Server at MAST. |
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Tutorials with examples of how to answer select scientific questions through queries to the PS1 DR2 catalogs using the Table Access Protocol (TAP) service at MAST. |
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Tutorial demonstrating how to approach splitting up, and then submitting (mostly serially), queries that are too large or long-running to be executed as a single query with MAST’s PS1 Table Access Protocol (TAP) service. |