Exploring the Time Domain With Synoptic Sky Surveys
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-06-03 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
Synoptic sky surveys are becoming the largest data generators in astronomy, and they are opening a new research frontier, that touches essentially every field of astronomy. Opening of the time domain to a systematic exploration will strengthen our understanding of a number of interesting known phenomena, and may lead to the discoveries of as yet unknown ones. We describe some lessons learned over the past decade, and offer some ideas that may guide strategic considerations in planning and execution of the future synoptic sky surveys.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.2078,
title = {Exploring the Time Domain With Synoptic Sky Surveys},
author = {S. G. Djorgovski and A. A. Mahabal and A. J. Drake and M. J. Graham and C. Donalek and R. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.2078},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited talk, to appear in proc. IAU SYmp. 285, "New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy", eds. E. Griffin et al., Cambridge Univ. Press (2012). Latex file, 6 pages, style files included