Pan-STARRS is the next big digital sky survey. It will observe 3/4 of the entire sky to 23rd magnitude in five optical and near infrared bands, many times of the course of three years. It has many scientific goals, including searching for Near-Earth objects, cosmology, discovery of exo-planets and the strucure and evolution of our Galaxy.

My group and I are developing the Pan-DiSC and Pan-STeP software for the Pan-STARRS data processing. The former is the Pan-STARRS Discrete Source Classifier, which will classify the billions of objects observed based on their colours. The latter is the Pan-STARRS STellar Parametrizer, which will determine astrophysical parameters (e.g. temperature, composition) for the stars. We are further involved in Galactic structure projects, in particular a census of the open cluster and star forming region population in the Galaxy.

Science operations started in 2010. You can find out more about the survey here and more about the scientific projects here.