The Young Supernova Experiment is a survey on the Pan-STARRS telescopes that will soon be surveying 1500 square degrees of sky every three days. YSE will discover thousands of new cosmic explosions and other astrophysical transients, dozens of them just days or hours after explosion. Our goals are to find statistical samples of young, red, and rare transients, better understand black hole variability, and to constrain the fundamental cosmological parameters of the universe.
The YSE Survey
| Area | 1512 deg2 |
| Cadence | 3 days |
| Exposure Time | 27s |
| Filter Sequence (Dark) | gr, gi |
| Filter Sequence (Bright) | ri, rz |
| Median gri Depth (Dark) | 21.5, 21.7, 21.4 mag |
| Median riz Depth (Bright) | 20.9, 20.9, 20.5 mag |