Changeset 35238 for trunk/dvodist/ippdata/index.mkd

Timestamp:

Mar 5, 2013, 2:34:10 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

eugene

Message:

merge changes from eam_branches/ipp-20130207

File:

• trunk/dvodist/ippdata/index.mkd (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/dvodist/ippdata/index.mkd

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 <?php include "@HTDOCS@/www-util/ippdata.page.php"; ?>
 
-# PS1 Public Data Distribution
+# PS1 / IPP Public Data Distribution
 
-This is the PS1 public data distribution server.  
+Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) is an astronomical observatory dedicated to
+surveying the sky in optical wavelengths.  The telescope is located at
+the summit of Haleakala on the Hawaiian island of Maui.  Data
+collected by the telescope are automatically processed by the PS1
+Image Processing Pipeline (IPP).
 
-Data is distributed in several forms
+The PS1 telescope has been in full survey operations since May 2010.
+In the intervening period, it is surveyed the 3/4 of the sky visible
+from Hawaii repeatedly in 5 bands.  This "3pi" survey gets the major
+portion of the telescope time (56%), with the remaining time going to
+a variety of deep survey fields and dedicated asteroid search time. 
 
-@ Data Product             : none                       : plain : title : Comment
-@ PS1 Photometry Ladder v0 : photladder.20120604.subset : dir   : dir1  : Photometry Ladder released 2012.06.07 (EAM UPDATE)
-@ Synthetic Photometry DVO : catdir.syn.test            : dir   : dir1  : Demonstration DVO Database
+One of the major goals of the 3pi survey is the construction of a
+high-quality photometric reference catalog covering the 3pi region
+(Dec > -30 deg).  
+
+These web pages provide the public access to data products related to
+the PS1 surveys, with particular emphasis on the bulk photometry (and
+eventually astrometry) datasets.
+
+@ Data Product                : none                       : plain : title : Comment
+@ PS1 Photladder, 12.01       : photladder.20130107.subset : dir   : dir1  : Photometric Reference Ladder, Release 12.01
+@ Synthetic Photometry DVO    : catdir.syn.test            : dir   : dir2  : Demonstration DVO Database