Name:	Liu, Michael
Email:	mliU@ifa.hawaii.edu
Institution:	University of Hawaii
Title:	Surveying the Extended Solar Neighborhood with Pan-STARRS and WISE
Topic:	Synergy with other surveys
Abstract:	The combination of the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) survey with WISE provides a unique wide-field (30,000 sq. degs) multi-epoch, multi-wavelength dataset spanning optical to mid-infrared wavelengths. We have used this merged dataset to find and characterize brown dwarfs within ~100 pc, in particular benefiting from the high-quality proper motions generated by PS1. The depth and quality of PS1+WISE have enabled us to construct large samples of L and hotter T dwarfs, complementary to the coolest objects that have been the focus of WISE-only searches, and thereby yielding a rich, well-defined census for studying brown dwarf evolution with age. Similarly, the sensitivity of PS1+WISE allows us to discover of extremely rare objects, including the youngest substellar objects in the solar neighborhood, down to the planetary-mass regime.