In this work we quantify the performance of LSST on the detection of eclipsing binaries. We use Kepler observed binaries to create a large sample of simulated pseudo-LSST binary light curves. From these light curves, we attempt to recover the known binary signal. The success rate of period recovery from the pseudo-LSST light curves is indicative of LSST's expected performance. Using an off-the-shelf Analysis of Variance (AoV) routine, we successfully recover 71% of the targets in our sample. We examine how the binary period impacts recovery success and see that for periods longer than 10~days the chance of successful binary recovery drops below 50%.
@article{arxiv.1703.06916,
title = {Initial Estimates on the Performance of the $LSST$ on the Detection of Eclipsing Binaries},
author = {Mark Wells and Andrej Prša and Lynne Jones and Peter Yoachim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06916},
year = {2017}
}
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to be published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific