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Pan-STARRS Pixel Analysis: Source Detection and Characterization

Magnier, Eugene A.; Sweeney, W.E.; Chambers, K.C.; Flewelling, H.A.; Huber, M.E.; Price, P.A.; Waters, C.Z.; Denneau, L.; Draper, P.W.; Farrow, D.; Jedicke, R.; Hodapp, K.W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Metcalfe, N.; Stubbs, C.W.; Wainscoat, R.J.

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Authors

Eugene A. Magnier

W.E. Sweeney

K.C. Chambers

H.A. Flewelling

M.E. Huber

P.A. Price

C.Z. Waters

L. Denneau

D. Farrow

R. Jedicke

K.W. Hodapp

N. Kaiser

R.-P. Kudritzki

C.W. Stubbs

R.J. Wainscoat



Abstract

Over 3 billion astronomical sources have been detected in the more than 22 million orthogonal transfer CCD images obtained as part of the Pan-STARRS1 3π survey. Over 85 billion instances of those sources have been automatically detected and characterized by the Pan-STARRS Image Processing Pipeline photometry software, psphot. This fast, automatic, and reliable software was developed for the Pan-STARRS project but is easily adaptable to images from other telescopes. We describe the analysis of the astronomical sources by psphot in general as well as for the specific case of the third processing version used for the first two public releases of the Pan-STARRS 3π Survey data.

Citation

Magnier, E. A., Sweeney, W., Chambers, K., Flewelling, H., Huber, M., Price, P., …Wainscoat, R. (2020). Pan-STARRS Pixel Analysis: Source Detection and Characterization. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 251(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abb82c

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 4, 2020
Online Publication Date Oct 30, 2020
Publication Date 2020-11
Deposit Date Nov 27, 2020
Publicly Available Date Nov 27, 2020
Journal Astrophysical Journal Supplement
Print ISSN 0067-0049
Electronic ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher American Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 251
Issue 1
Article Number 5
DOI https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abb82c

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