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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

Area1512 deg2
Cadence3 days
Exposure Time27s
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

Transients with Public YSE Reports in the last Week

YSE Fields Observed in the Last Week