LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
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Ivezić, ŽeljkoKahn, Steven M.
Tyson, J. Anthony
Abel, Bob
Acosta, Emily
Allsman, Robyn
Alonso, David
AlSayyad, Yusra
Anderson, Scott F.
Andrew, John
P. Angel, James Roger
Angeli, George Z.
Ansari, Reza
Antilogus, Pierre
Araujo, Constanza
Armstrong, Robert
Arndt, Kirk T.
Astier, Pierre
Aubourg, Éric
Auza, Nicole
Axelrod, Tim S.
Bard, Deborah J.
Barr, Jeff D.
Barrau, Aurelian
Bartlett, James G.
Bauer, Amanda E.
Bauman, Brian J.
Baumont, Sylvain
Bechtol, Ellen
Bechtol, Keith
Becker, Andrew C.
Becla, Jacek
Beldica, Cristina
Bellavia, Steve
Bianco, Federica B.
Biswas, Rahul
Blanc, Guillaume
Blazek, Jonathan
Blandford, Roger D.
Bloom, Josh S.
Bogart, Joanne
Bond, Tim W.
Booth, Michael T.
Borgland, Anders W.
Borne, Kirk
Bosch, James F.
Boutigny, Dominique
Brackett, Craig A.
Bradshaw, Andrew
Brandt, William Nielsen
Brown, Michael E.
Bullock, James S.
Burchat, Patricia
Burke, David L.
Cagnoli, Gianpietro
Calabrese, Daniel
Callahan, Shawn
Callen, Alice L.
Carlin, Jeffrey L.

Carlson, Erin L.
Chandrasekharan, Srinivasan
Charles-Emerson, Glenaver
Chesley, Steve
Cheu, Elliott C.
Chiang, Hsin-Fang

Chiang, James
Chirino, Carol
Chow, Derek
Ciardi, David R.
Claver, Charles F.
Cohen-Tanugi, Johann
Cockrum, Joseph J.
Coles, Rebecca
Connolly, Andrew J.
Cook, Kem H.
Cooray, Asantha
Covey, Kevin R.

Cribbs, Chris
Cui, Wei
Cutri, Roc
Daly, Philip N.
Daniel, Scott F.
Daruich, Felipe
Daubard, Guillaume
Daues, Greg
Dawson, William
Delgado, Francisco
Dellapenna, Alfred
Peyster, Robert de
Val-Borro, Miguel de
Digel, Seth W.
Doherty, Peter
Dubois, Richard
Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory P.
Durech, Josef
Economou, Frossie
Eifler, Tim
Eracleous, Michael
Emmons, Benjamin L.
Neto, Angelo Fausti
Ferguson, Henry
Figueroa, Enrique
Fisher-Levine, Merlin
Focke, Warren
Foss, Michael D.
Frank, James
Freemon, Michael D.
Gangler, Emmanuel
Gawiser, Eric

Geary, John C.
Gee, Perry
Geha, Marla

Gessner, Charles J. B.
Gibson, Robert R.
Gilmore, D. Kirk
Glanzman, Thomas
Glick, William
Goldina, Tatiana
Goldstein, Daniel A.
Goodenow, Iain
Graham, Melissa L.
Gressler, William J.
Gris, Philippe
Guy, Leanne P.
Guyonnet, Augustin
Haller, Gunther
Harris, Ron
Hascall, Patrick A.
Haupt, Justine
Hernandez, Fabio
Herrmann, Sven
Hileman, Edward
Hoblitt, Joshua
Hodgson, John A.
Hogan, Craig
Howard, James D.
Huang, Dajun
Huffer, Michael E.
Ingraham, Patrick

Innes, Walter R.
Jacoby, Suzanne H.
Jain, Bhuvnesh
Jammes, Fabrice
Jee, James
Jenness, Tim
Jernigan, Garrett
Jevremović, Darko
Johns, Kenneth
Johnson, Anthony S.
Johnson, Margaret W. G.
Jones, R. Lynne
Juramy-Gilles, Claire
Jurić, Mario
Kalirai, Jason S.
Kallivayalil, Nitya J.
Kalmbach, Bryce
Kantor, Jeffrey P.
Karst, Pierre
Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Kelly, Heather
Kessler, Richard
Kinnison, Veronica
Kirkby, David
Knox, Lloyd
Kotov, Ivan V.
Krabbendam, Victor L.
Krughoff, K. Simon
Kubánek, Petr
Kuczewski, John
Kulkarni, Shri
Ku, John
Kurita, Nadine R.
Lage, Craig S.
Lambert, Ron
Lange, Travis
Langton, J. Brian
Guillou, Laurent Le
Levine, Deborah
Liang, Ming
Lim, Kian-Tat
Lintott, Chris J.
Long, Kevin E.
Lopez, Margaux
Lotz, Paul J.
Lupton, Robert H.
Lust, Nate B.
MacArthur, Lauren A.
Mahabal, Ashish
Mandelbaum, Rachel
Markiewicz, Thomas W.
Marsh, Darren S.
Marshall, Philip J.
Marshall, Stuart
May, Morgan
McKercher, Robert
McQueen, Michelle
Meyers, Joshua
Migliore, Myriam
Miller, Michelle
Mills, David J.
Miraval, Connor
Moeyens, Joachim
Moolekamp, Fred E.
Monet, David G.
Moniez, Marc
Monkewitz, Serge
Montgomery, Christopher
Morrison, Christopher B.
Mueller, Fritz
Muller, Gary P.
Arancibia, Freddy Muñoz
Neill, Douglas R.
Newbry, Scott P.
Nief, Jean-Yves
Nomerotski, Andrei
Nordby, Martin
O’Connor, Paul
Oliver, John
Olivier, Scot S.
Olsen, Knut

O’Mullane, William
Ortiz, Sandra
Osier, Shawn
Owen, Russell E.
Pain, Reynald
Palecek, Paul E.
Parejko, John K.
Parsons, James B.
Pease, Nathan M.
Peterson, J. Matt
Peterson, John R.
Petravick, Donald L.
Petrick, M. E. Libby
Petry, Cathy E.
Pierfederici, Francesco
Pietrowicz, Stephen
Pike, Rob
Pinto, Philip A.
Plante, Raymond
Plate, Stephen
Plutchak, Joel P.
Price, Paul A.
Prouza, Michael
Radeka, Veljko
Rajagopal, Jayadev
Rasmussen, Andrew P.
Regnault, Nicolas
Reil, Kevin A.
Reiss, David J.
Reuter, Michael A.
Ridgway, Stephen T.
Riot, Vincent J.
Ritz, Steve
Robinson, Sean
Roby, William
Roodman, Aaron
Rosing, Wayne
Roucelle, Cecille
Rumore, Matthew R.
Russo, Stefano
Saha, Abhijit

Sassolas, Benoit
Schalk, Terry L.
Schellart, Pim
Schindler, Rafe H.
Schmidt, Samuel
Schneider, Donald P.
Schneider, Michael D.
Schoening, William
Schumacher, German
Schwamb, Megan E.

Sebag, Jacques
Selvy, Brian
Sembroski, Glenn H.
Seppala, Lynn G.
Serio, Andrew
Serrano, Eduardo
Shaw, Richard A.
Shipsey, Ian
Sick, Jonathan
Silvestri, Nicole
Slater, Colin T.
Smith, J. Allyn
Smith, R. Chris
Sobhani, Shahram
Soldahl, Christine
Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa
Stover, Edward
Strauss, Michael A.

Street, Rachel A.
Stubbs, Christopher W.
Sullivan, Ian S.
Sweeney, Donald
Swinbank, John D.
Szalay, Alexander
Takacs, Peter
Tether, Stephen A.
Thaler, Jon J.
Thayer, John Gregg
Thomas, Sandrine
Thornton, Adam J.
Thukral, Vaikunth
Tice, Jeffrey
Trilling, David E.
Turri, Max
Berg, Richard Van
Berk, Daniel Vanden
Vetter, Kurt
Virieux, Francoise
Vucina, Tomislav
Wahl, William
Walkowicz, Lucianne
Walsh, Brian
Walter, Christopher W.
Wang, Daniel L.
Wang, Shin-Yawn
Warner, Michael
Wiecha, Oliver
Willman, Beth
Winters, Scott E.
Wittman, David
Wolff, Sidney C.
Wood-Vasey, W. Michael
Wu, Xiuqin
Xin, Bo
Yoachim, Peter
Zhan, Hu
Affiliation
Univ Arizona, Steward ObservUniv Arizona, Dept Comp Sci
Univ Arizona, Dept Phys
Univ Arizona
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2019-03-11Keywords
astrometrycosmology: observations
Galaxy: general
methods: observational
stars: general
surveys
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Ivezić, Ž., Kahn, S. M., Tyson, J. A., Abel, B., Acosta, E., Allsman, R., ... & Zhan H. (2019). LSST: from science drivers to reference design and anticipated data products. The Astrophysical Journal, 873(2), 111.Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). 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 large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain repeated images covering the sky visible from Cerro Pachon 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, a 3.2-gigapixel camera, and six filters (ugrizy) covering the wavelength range 320-1050 nm. The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. About 90% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode that will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg(2) region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 yr of operations and will yield a co-added map to r similar to 27.5. These data will result in databases including about 32 trillion observations of 20 billion galaxies and a similar number of stars, and they will serve the majority of the primary science programs. The remaining 10% of the observing time will be allocated to special projects such as Very Deep and Very Fast time domain surveys, whose details are currently under discussion. We illustrate how the LSST science drivers led to these choices of system parameters, and we describe the expected data products and their characteristics.ISSN
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National Science Foundation [1258333]; Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratoryae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-4357/ab042c
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