Publication Date:
2013-10-08
Description:
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1) survey is acquiring multi-epoch imaging in five bands ( g P1 , r P1 , i P1 , z P1 , y P1 ) over the entire sky north of declination –30° (the 3 survey). In 2011 July a test area of about 70 deg 2 was observed to the expected final depth of the main survey. In this, the first of a series of papers targeting 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.
Print ISSN:
0035-8711
Electronic ISSN:
1365-2966
Topics:
Physics
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