Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes

Klaus W. Hodapp; Walter A. Siegmund; Nicholas Kaiser; Kenneth C. Chambers; Uwe Laux; Jeff Morgan; Ed Mannery

doi:10.1117/12.550179

28 September 2004 Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes

Klaus W. Hodapp, Walter A. Siegmund, Nicholas Kaiser, Kenneth C. Chambers, Uwe Laux, Jeff Morgan, Ed Mannery

Proceedings Volume 5489, Ground-based Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550179
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is a project to first develop a single wide field synoptic survey telescope (Pan-STARRS-1) followed by a system of four such telescopes. It is designed to accomplish many of the science goals envisioned by the decadal review for LSST. The primary mission of Pan-STARRS is the detection of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA), secondary science objectives are a (nearly) all-sky survey, a medium-deep survey, an ultra-deep survey, and studies of transients and variable objects. This paper presents the current status of the telescope design, with emphasis on the optics.

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Klaus W. Hodapp, Walter A. Siegmund, Nicholas Kaiser, Kenneth C. Chambers, Uwe Laux, Jeff Morgan, and Ed Mannery "Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes", Proc. SPIE 5489, Ground-based Telescopes, (28 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550179

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