LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
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 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 point-source depth in a single visit in will be (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 with , and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, , 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 region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to . 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{arxiv.0805.2366,
title = {LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products},
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 Tim S. Axelrod and Deborah J. Bard and Jeff D. Barr and Aurelian Barrau and James G. Bartlett and Amanda E. Bauer and Brian J. Bauman and Sylvain Baumont and Andrew 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 Anders W. Borgland and Kirk Borne and James F. Bosch and Dominique Boutigny and Craig A. Brackett and Andrew Bradshaw and William Nielsen Brandt and Michael E. Brown and James S. Bullock and Patricia Burchat and David L. Burke and Gianpietro Cagnoli and Daniel Calabrese and Shawn Callahan and Alice L. Callen and Srinivasan Chandrasekharan and Glenaver Charles-Emerson and Steve Chesley and Elliott C. Cheu and Hsin-Fang Chiang and James Chiang and Carol Chirino and Derek Chow and David R. Ciardi and Charles F. Claver and Johann Cohen-Tanugi and Joseph J. Cockrum and Rebecca Coles and Andrew J. Connolly and Kem H. Cook and Asantha Cooray and Kevin R. Covey and Chris Cribbs and Wei Cui and Roc Cutri and Philip N. Daly and Scott F. Daniel and Felipe Daruich and Guillaume Daubard and Greg Daues and William Dawson and Francisco Delgado and Alfred Dellapenna and Robert de Peyster and Miguel de Val-Borro and Seth W. Digel and Peter Doherty and Richard Dubois and Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann and Josef Durech and Frossie Economou and Michael Eracleous and Henry Ferguson and Enrique Figueroa and Merlin Fisher-Levine and Warren Focke and Michael D. Foss and James Frank and Michael D. Freemon and Emmanuel Gangler and Eric Gawiser and John C. Geary and Perry Gee and Marla Geha and Charles J. B. Gessner and Robert R. Gibson and D. Kirk Gilmore and Thomas Glanzman and William Glick and Tatiana Goldina and Daniel A. Goldstein and Iain Goodenow and Melissa L. Graham and William J. Gressler and Philippe Gris and Leanne P. Guy and Augustin Guyonnet and Gunther Haller and Ron Harris and Patrick A. Hascall and Justine Haupt and Fabio Hernandez and Sven Herrmann and Edward Hileman and Joshua Hoblitt and John A. Hodgson and Craig Hogan and Dajun Huang and Michael E. Huffer and Patrick Ingraham and Walter R. Innes and Suzanne H. Jacoby and Bhuvnesh Jain and Fabrice Jammes and James Jee and Tim Jenness and Garrett Jernigan and Darko Jevremović and Kenneth Johns and Anthony S. Johnson and Margaret W. G. Johnson and R. Lynne Jones and Claire Juramy-Gilles and Mario Jurić and Jason S. Kalirai and Nitya J. Kallivayalil and Bryce Kalmbach and Jeffrey P. Kantor and Pierre Karst and Mansi M. Kasliwal and Heather Kelly and Richard Kessler and Veronica Kinnison and David Kirkby and Lloyd Knox and Ivan V. Kotov and Victor L. Krabbendam and K. Simon Krughoff and Petr Kubánek and John Kuczewski and Shri Kulkarni and John Ku and Nadine R. Kurita and Craig S. Lage and Ron Lambert and Travis Lange and J. Brian Langton and Laurent Le Guillou and Deborah Levine and Ming Liang and Kian-Tat Lim and Chris J. Lintott and Kevin E. Long and Margaux Lopez and Paul J. Lotz and Robert H. Lupton and Nate B. Lust and Lauren A. MacArthur and Ashish Mahabal and Rachel Mandelbaum and Darren S. Marsh and Philip J. Marshall and Stuart Marshall and Morgan May and Robert McKercher and Michelle McQueen and Joshua Meyers and Myriam Migliore and Michelle Miller and David J. Mills and Connor Miraval and Joachim Moeyens and David G. Monet and Marc Moniez and Serge Monkewitz and Christopher Montgomery and Fritz Mueller and Gary P. Muller and Freddy Muñoz Arancibia and Douglas R. Neill and Scott P. Newbry and Jean-Yves Nief and Andrei Nomerotski and Martin Nordby and Paul O'Connor and John Oliver and Scot S. Olivier and Knut Olsen and William O'Mullane and Sandra Ortiz and Shawn Osier and Russell E. Owen and Reynald Pain and Paul E. Palecek and John K. Parejko and James B. Parsons and Nathan M. Pease and J. Matt Peterson and John R. Peterson and Donald L. Petravick and M. E. Libby Petrick and Cathy E. Petry and Francesco Pierfederici and Stephen Pietrowicz and Rob Pike and Philip A. Pinto and Raymond Plante and Stephen Plate and Paul A. Price and Michael Prouza and Veljko Radeka and Jayadev Rajagopal and Andrew P. Rasmussen and Nicolas Regnault and Kevin A. Reil and David J. Reiss and Michael A. Reuter and Stephen T. Ridgway and Vincent J. Riot and Steve Ritz and Sean Robinson and William Roby and Aaron Roodman and Wayne Rosing and Cecille Roucelle and Matthew R. Rumore and Stefano Russo and Abhijit Saha and Benoit Sassolas and Terry L. Schalk and Pim Schellart and Rafe H. Schindler and Samuel Schmidt and Donald P. Schneider and Michael D. Schneider and William Schoening and German Schumacher and Megan E. Schwamb and Jacques Sebag and Brian Selvy and Glenn H. Sembroski and Lynn G. Seppala and Andrew Serio and Eduardo Serrano and Richard A. Shaw and Ian Shipsey and Jonathan Sick and Nicole Silvestri and Colin T. Slater and J. Allyn Smith and R. Chris Smith and Shahram Sobhani and Christine Soldahl and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi and Edward Stover and Michael A. Strauss and Rachel A. Street and Christopher W. Stubbs and Ian S. Sullivan and Donald Sweeney and John D. Swinbank and Alexander Szalay and Peter Takacs and Stephen A. Tether and Jon J. Thaler and John Gregg Thayer and Sandrine Thomas and Vaikunth Thukral and Jeffrey Tice and David E. Trilling and Max Turri and Richard Van Berg and Daniel Vanden Berk and Kurt Vetter and Francoise Virieux and Tomislav Vucina and William Wahl and Lucianne Walkowicz and Brian Walsh and Christopher W. Walter and Daniel L. Wang and Shin-Yawn Wang and Michael Warner and Oliver Wiecha and Beth Willman and Scott E. Winters and David Wittman and Sidney C. Wolff and W. Michael Wood-Vasey and Xiuqin Wu and Bo Xin and Peter Yoachim and Hu Zhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2366},
year = {2019}
}
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57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview