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Pan-STARRS1 as pilot-survey for panoptic time-domain science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2017

Nina Hernitschek
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
Hans-Walter Rix
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
Branimir Sesar
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
Edward F. Schlafly
Affiliation:
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-5800
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Abstract

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For examining possibilities and challenges in doing science with multi-band and non-simultaneous data from upcoming surveys like LSST, the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3π can be used as a pilot survey. This is especially important to explore the possibilities in detection and classification of variable sources within the first years of LSST’s 10-year baseline. We had explored the capabilities of PS1 3π for carrying out time-domain science in a variety of applications. We had used structure function fitting as well as period fitting, to search for and classify high-latitude as well as low-latitude variable sources, in particular RR Lyrae, Cepheids and QSOs.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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