Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes

Klaus W. Hodapp; Uwe Laux; Walter A. Siegmund; Nickolas Kaiser

doi:10.1117/12.513163

18 February 2004 Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes

Klaus W. Hodapp, Uwe Laux, Walter A. Siegmund, Nickolas Kaiser

Proceedings Volume 5249, Optical Design and Engineering; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.513163
Event: Optical Systems Design, 2003, St. Etienne, France

Abstract

Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is a project to develop a system of four wide field synoptic 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 variability. This paper discusses the basic design choice of a distributed system of four telescopes and the details of the optics design.

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Klaus W. Hodapp, Uwe Laux, Walter A. Siegmund, and Nickolas Kaiser "Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes", Proc. SPIE 5249, Optical Design and Engineering, (18 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.513163

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