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LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić
Steven M. Kahn
J. Anthony Tyson
Bob Abel
Emily Acosta
Robyn Allsman
David Alonso
Yusra Alsayyad
Scott F. Anderson
John Andrew
James Roger P. Angel
George Z. Angeli
Reza Ansari
Pierre Antilogus
Constanza Araujo
Robert Armstrong
Kirk T. Arndt
Pierre Astier
Éric Aubourg
Nicole Auza
T. S. Axelrod
D. Bard
Jeff D. Barr
Aurelian Barrau
James G. Bartlett
Amanda Bauer
Brian J. Bauman
Sylvain Baumont
Ellen Bechtol
Keith Bechtol
A. C. Becker
Jacek Becla
Cristina Beldica
Steve Bellavia
Federica B. Bianco
Rahul Biswas
Guillaume Blanc
Jonathan Blazek
Roger D. Blandford
Josh S. Bloom
Joanne Bogart
Tim W. Bond
Michael T. Booth
Anders W. Borgland
Kirk Borne
James Bosch
Dominique Boutigny
Craig A. Brackett
Andrew Bradshaw
W. Brandt
Michael G. Brown
James S. Bullock
Patricia Burchat
D S Burke
Gianpietro Cagnoli
Daniel Calabrese
Shawn Callahan
Alice L. Callen
J. L. Carlin
Erin L. Carlson
Srinivasan Chandrasekharan
Glenaver Charles-Emerson
Steven Chesley
Elliott C. Cheu
Hsin-Wei Chiang
James Chiang
Carol Chirino
Derek Chow
David R. Ciardi
Charles F. Claver
Johann Cohen‐Tanugi
Joseph J. Cockrum
Rebecca Coles
Andrew Connolly
Kem H. Cook
Asantha Cooray
K. R. Covey
Chris Cribbs
Wei Cui
Roc M. Cutri
Philip N. Daly
Scott F. Daniel
Felipe Daruich
Guillaume Daubard
Greg Daues
Will Dawson
Francisco Delgado
Alfred Dellapenna
Robert de Peyster
M. de Val-Borro
Seth W. Digel
Peter Doherty
Richard Dubois
Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann
Josef Durech
Frossie Economou
Tim Eifler
M. Eracleous
Benjamin L. Emmons
Angelo Fausti Neto
Harry F. Ferguson
Enrique Figueroa
Merlin Fisher-Levine
Warren Focke
Michael D. Foss
James Frank
Michael D. Freemon
E. Gangler
Eric Gawiser
John C. Geary
Perry Gee
M. Geha
Charles J. B. Gessner
Robert R. Gibson
D. Kirk Gilmore
T. Glanzman
William Glick
Tatiana Goldina
Daniel A. Goldstein
Iain Goodenow
Melissa Graham
William J. Gressler
Philippe Gris
Leanne P. Guy
Augustin Guyonnet
Gunther Haller
Ron Harris
Patrick A. Hascall
Justine Haupt
Fabio Hernandez
Sven Herrmann
Edward Hileman
Joshua Hoblitt
John A. Hodgson
Craig Hogan
James D. Howard
Dajun Huang
Michael E. Huffer
Patrick Ingraham
Walter R. Innes
Suzanne H. Jacoby
Bhuvnesh Jain
Fabrice Jammes
James Jee
Tim Jenness
Garrett Jernigan
Darko Jevremović
Kenneth Johns
Anthony S. Johnson
Margaret W. G. Johnson
R. Lynne Jones
Claire Juramy-Gilles
Mario Jurić
Jason S. Kalirai
Nitya Kallivayalil
J. H. Kalmbach
Jeffrey P. Kantor
Pierre Karst
Mansi M. Kasliwal
Heather Kelly
R C Kessler
Veronica Kinnison
David Kirkby
Lloyd Knox
Ivan V. Kotov
Victor L. Krabbendam
K. Simon Krughoff
Petr Kubánek
John Kuczewski
S. Kulkarni
John Ku
Nadine R. Kurita
Craig S. Lage
Ron Lambert
Travis Lange
J. Brian Langton
Laurent Le Guillou
Deborah Levine
Ming Liang
Kian-Tat Lim
C. Lintott
Kevin E. Long
Margaux Lopez
Paul J. Lotz
Robert H. Lupton
Nate B. Lust
Lauren A. MacArthur
Ashish Mahabal
Thomas W. Markiewicz
Darren S. Marsh
Philip J. Marshall
Stuart Marshall
Morgan May
Robert McKercher
Michelle McQueen
Joshua Meyers
Myriam Migliore
Michelle Miller
David J. Mills
Connor Miraval
Joachim Moeyens
Fred Moolekamp
David G. Monet
Marc Moniez
Serge Monkewitz
Christopher Montgomery
Christopher B. Morrison
Fritz Mueller
Gary P. Muller
Freddy Muñoz Arancibia
Douglas R. Neill
Scott P. Newbry
Jean-Yves Nief
Andrei Nomerotski
Martin Nordby
Paul O’Connor
John Oliver
Scot S. Olivier
K. Olsen
William O’Mullane
Sandra Ortiz
Shawn Osier
Russell E. Owen
Reynald Pain
Paul E. Palecek
John K. Parejko
James B. Parsons
Nathan M. Pease
J. Matt Peterson
J. R. Peterson
Donald L. Petravick
M. E. Libby Petrick
Cathy E. Petry
Francesco Pierfederici
Stephen Pietrowicz
Rob Pike
Philip A. Pinto
Raymond Plante
Stephen Plate
Joel P. Plutchak
Paul A. Price
Michael Prouza
Veljko Radeka
Jayadev Rajagopal
Andrew P. Rasmussen
Nicolas Regnault
Kevin A. Reil
David J. Reiss
Michael A. Reuter
S. T. Ridgway
Vincent J. Riot
Steve Ritz
Sean Robinson
William Roby
A. Roodman
Wayne Rosing
Cecille Roucelle
Matthew R. Rumore
Stefano Russo
Abhijit Saha
Benoit Sassolas
Terry L. Schalk
Pim Schellart
Rafe H. Schindler
S. J. Schmidt
Donald P. Schneider
Michael D. Schneider
William Schoening
German Schumacher
Megan E. Schwamb
Jacques Sebag
Brian Selvy
Glenn H. Sembroski
Lynn G. Seppala
Andrew Serio
Eduardo Serrano
Richard A. Shaw
Ian Shipsey
Jonathan Sick
Nicole Silvestri
Colin T. Slater
J. Allyn Smith
R. Chris Smith
Shahram Sobhani
Christine Soldahl
Lisa Storrie-Lombardi
Edward Stover
Michael A. Strauss
R. A. Street
C. W. Stubbs
Ian Sullivan
Donald Sweeney
John D. Swinbank
Alexander Szalay
Peter Takacs
Stephen A. Tether
Jon J. Thaler
John Gregg Thayer
Sandrine J. Thomas
Adam J. Thornton
Vaikunth Thukral
Jeffrey Tice
D. E. Trilling
Max Turri
Richard Van Berg
Daniel Vanden Berk
Kurt Vetter
Francoise Virieux
Tomislav Vucina
William Wahl
Lucianne M. Walkowicz
B. M. Walsh
C. W. Walter
Daniel L. Wang
Shin-Yawn Wang
Michael Warner
Oliver Wiecha
Beth Willman
Scott E. Winters
L. M. Lubin
Sidney C. Wolff
W. M. Wood‐Vasey
Xiuqin Wu
Bo Xin
Peter Yoachim
Hu Zhan
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2019-03-11
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR2.038
CiteScore8.4
Impact factor5.4
ISSN0004637X, 15384357
Space and Planetary Science
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abstract
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000 square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5$\sigma$ point-source depth in a single visit in $r$ will be $\sim 24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta<+34.5^\circ$, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, $ugrizy$, covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27.5$. The remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products, including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion objects, available to the public and scientists around the world.
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@article{2019_Ivezić,
author = {Željko Ivezić and Steven M. Kahn and J. Anthony Tyson and Bob Abel and Emily Acosta and Robyn Allsman and David Alonso and Yusra Alsayyad and Scott F. Anderson and John Andrew and James Roger P. Angel and George Z. Angeli and Reza Ansari and Pierre Antilogus and Constanza Araujo and Robert Armstrong and Kirk T. Arndt and Pierre Astier and Éric Aubourg and Nicole Auza and T. S. Axelrod and D. Bard and Jeff D. Barr and Aurelian Barrau and James G. Bartlett and Amanda Bauer and Brian J. Bauman and Sylvain Baumont and Ellen Bechtol and Keith Bechtol and A. C. Becker and Jacek Becla and Cristina Beldica and Steve Bellavia and Federica B. Bianco and Rahul Biswas and Guillaume Blanc and Jonathan Blazek and Roger D. Blandford and Josh S. Bloom and Joanne Bogart and Tim W. Bond and Michael T. Booth and Anders W. Borgland and Kirk Borne and James Bosch and Dominique Boutigny and Craig A. Brackett and Andrew Bradshaw and W. Brandt and others},
title = {LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products},
journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
year = {2019},
volume = {873},
publisher = {American Astronomical Society},
month = {mar},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c},
number = {2},
pages = {111},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c}
}
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Ivezić, Željko, et al. “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 873, no. 2, Mar. 2019, p. 111. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c.