Explosive Ideas about Massive Stars - from Observations to Modeling

Session

Surveys now and in future

13

13 Aug 2011, 11:00

Oskar Klein (AlbaNova University Center)

Conveners

Surveys now and in future: S. Smartt, "Supernovae and Transients with the Pan-STARRS survey"

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Surveys now and in future

• Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm university)

Surveys now and in future: S. Kulkarni, "PTF results on core collapse SNe"

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333. Supernovae and Transients with the Pan-STARRS survey

Prof. Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)

13/08/2011, 11:30

The Pan-STARRS-1 telescope is a 1.8m survey facility with a 1.4 Gigapix camera, the largest ever built for astronomical use. It has completed 1 year of full science operations. It has mapped most of the northern sky in grizY, is finding near-earth asteroids at fainter magnitudes than before and has discovered more than 2000 supernovae in the Medium Deep Survey fields. These are 11 fields...