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Aug 10, 2020, 8:38:13 PM (6 years ago)
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eugene
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mods for referee

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    1 \documentclass[preprint2]{emulateapj}
     1% \documentclass[preprint2]{emulateapj}
     2\documentclass[iop,floatfix]{emulateapj}
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    34%% EAM 2019.08.26 : I am starting edits based on the comments I sent to HAF last month
     
    241242\section{Background}
    242243\label{sec:background}
    243 The Pan-STARRS Project teamed with Alex Szalay's database development group at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to undertake the task of providing a publicly accessible hierarchical database for \PS\ \citep{Heasley2008}. The JHU team was the major developer of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) public database \citep{Thakar2003}, and it was an early goal of the Pan-STARRS team to reuse as much of the existing software as possible. However, for a number of reasons including the much larger size of the \PS\ dataset, the wide variety of image and measurement types and the importance of temporal information, major changes to the code base were required.  Like the SDSS database, the database implementation for \PS\ is based on the Microsoft SQL Server product line, with supporting code forked from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server Jobs System (CasJobs).  Staying with SQL Server allows the use of a wealth of software developed for SDSS, including the  Hierarchical Triangular Mesh tools \citep{Szalay2007}.  The system developed for \PS\ is called the {\em Published Science Products Subsystem}, or PSPS \citep{Heasley2006}.
     244
     245The Pan-STARRS Project teamed with Alex Szalay's database development
     246group at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to undertake the task of
     247providing a publicly accessible hierarchical database for
     248\PS\ \citep{Heasley2008}. The JHU team was the major developer of the
     249Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) public database \citep{Thakar2003},
     250and it was an early goal of the Pan-STARRS team to reuse as much of
     251the existing software as possible. However, for a number of reasons
     252including the much larger size of the \PS\ dataset, the wide variety
     253of image and measurement types and the importance of temporal
     254information, major changes to the code base were required.  Like the
     255SDSS database, the database implementation for \PS\ is based on the
     256Microsoft SQL Server product line, with supporting code forked from
     257the SDSS Catalog Archive Server Jobs System (CasJobs).  Staying with
     258SQL Server allows the use of a wealth of software developed for SDSS,
     259including the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh tools \citep{Szalay2007}.
     260The system developed for \PS\ is called the {\em Published Science
     261  Products Subsystem}, or PSPS \citep{Heasley2006}.
     262\note{define hierarchical, note relational}
     263
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    245265%(SDSS) public database \citep{Thakar2003}, and it is useful to reuse as much of the software developed for the SDSS as possible. However, due
     
    266286
    267287This paper covers multiple data releases.  The first \PS\ data release
    268 (DR1, Dec 2016) covers the 3$\pi$ \ippstage{stack} images and the static
    269 sky catalog.  The DR1 image products are deep stacked images
    270 along with ancillary data including signal, masks, variance, and
    271 number maps.  The DR1 catalog data products available from the PSPS
    272 include the PS1 static sky 3$\pi$ catalog. Source properties are
    273 organized into several tables, as described in
    274 Table~\ref{table:pspstables}; only tables referring to the static
    275 results, without time domain information, are included in DR1.
    276 
    277 Data Release 2 (DR2, Jan 2019), adds more of the PS1 image products
     288(DR1, \textadd{database opened to public in} Dec 2016) covers the 3$\pi$
     289\ippstage{stack} images and the static sky catalog.  The DR1 image
     290products are deep stacked images along with ancillary data including
     291signal, masks, variance, and number maps.  The DR1 catalog data
     292products available from the PSPS include the PS1 static sky 3$\pi$
     293catalog. Source properties are organized into several tables, as
     294described in Table~\ref{table:pspstables}; only tables referring to
     295the static results, without time domain information, are included in
     296DR1.
     297
     298Data Release 2 (DR2, \textadd{database opened to public in} Jan 2019), adds more of the PS1 image products
    278299from the 3$\pi$ survey, including the single epoch \ippstage{warp} images
    279300and their ancillary data, such as signal, masks, and variance
    280301maps. DR2 provides the \ippdbtable{Detection} tables and \ippdbtable{Forced*}
     302\footnote{\textadd{In this article, we refer to groups of tables with the same
     303  base name using the file ``glob'' convention where, e.g., \ippdbtable{Forced*} refers
     304  to a collection of tables starting with \ippdbtable{Forced}.}}
    281305tables, containing the single epoch source detections and the forced
    282306photometry.  DR2 also contains numerous improvements to the data
     
    16091633
    16101634\bibliographystyle{apj}
    1611 %\bibliography{dataproducts}{}
    1612 \input{dataproducts.bbl}
     1635\bibliography{dataproducts}{}
     1636%\input{dataproducts.bbl}
    16131637
    16141638\appendix
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