LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
Abstract
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over 20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.
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@article{arxiv.0912.0201,
title = {LSST Science Book, Version 2.0},
author = {LSST Science Collaboration and Paul A. Abell and Julius Allison and Scott F. Anderson and John R. Andrew and J. Roger P. Angel and Lee Armus and David Arnett and S. J. Asztalos and Tim S. Axelrod and Stephen Bailey and D. R. Ballantyne and Justin R. Bankert and Wayne A. Barkhouse and Jeffrey D. Barr and L. Felipe Barrientos and Aaron J. Barth and James G. Bartlett and Andrew C. Becker and Jacek Becla and Timothy C. Beers and Joseph P. Bernstein and Rahul Biswas and Michael R. Blanton and Joshua S. Bloom and John J. Bochanski and Pat Boeshaar and Kirk D. Borne and Marusa Bradac and W. N. Brandt and Carrie R. Bridge and Michael E. Brown and Robert J. Brunner and James S. Bullock and Adam J. Burgasser and James H. Burge and David L. Burke and Phillip A. Cargile and Srinivasan Chandrasekharan and George Chartas and Steven R. Chesley and You-Hua Chu and David Cinabro and Mark W. Claire and Charles F. Claver and Douglas Clowe and A. J. Connolly and Kem H. Cook and Jeff Cooke and Asantha Cooray and Kevin R. Covey and Christopher S. Culliton and Roelof de Jong and Willem H. de Vries and Victor P. Debattista and Francisco Delgado and Ian P. Dell'Antonio and Saurav Dhital and Rosanne Di Stefano and Mark Dickinson and Benjamin Dilday and S. G. Djorgovski and Gregory Dobler and Ciro Donalek and Gregory Dubois-Felsmann and Josef Durech and Ardis Eliasdottir and Michael Eracleous and Laurent Eyer and Emilio E. Falco and Xiaohui Fan and Christopher D. Fassnacht and Harry C. Ferguson and Yanga R. Fernandez and Brian D. Fields and Douglas Finkbeiner and Eduardo E. Figueroa and Derek B. Fox and Harold Francke and James S. Frank and Josh Frieman and Sebastien Fromenteau and Muhammad Furqan and Gaspar Galaz and A. Gal-Yam and Peter Garnavich and Eric Gawiser and John Geary and Perry Gee and Robert R. Gibson and Kirk Gilmore and Emily A. Grace and Richard F. Green and William J. Gressler and Carl J. Grillmair and Salman Habib and J. S. Haggerty and Mario Hamuy and Alan W. Harris and Suzanne L. Hawley and Alan F. Heavens and Leslie Hebb and Todd J. Henry and Edward Hileman and Eric J. Hilton and Keri Hoadley and J. B. Holberg and Matt J. Holman and Steve B. Howell and Leopoldo Infante and Zeljko Ivezic and Suzanne H. Jacoby and Bhuvnesh Jain and R and Jedicke and M. James Jee and J. Garrett Jernigan and Saurabh W. Jha and Kathryn V. Johnston and R. Lynne Jones and Mario Juric and Mikko Kaasalainen and Styliani and Kafka and Steven M. Kahn and Nathan A. Kaib and Jason Kalirai and Jeff Kantor and Mansi M. Kasliwal and Charles R. Keeton and Richard Kessler and Zoran Knezevic and Adam Kowalski and Victor L. Krabbendam and K. Simon Krughoff and Shrinivas Kulkarni and Stephen Kuhlman and Mark Lacy and Sebastien Lepine and Ming Liang and Amy Lien and Paulina Lira and Knox S. Long and Suzanne Lorenz and Jennifer M. Lotz and R. H. Lupton and Julie Lutz and Lucas M. Macri and Ashish A. Mahabal and Rachel Mandelbaum and Phil Marshall and Morgan May and Peregrine M. McGehee and Brian T. Meadows and Alan Meert and Andrea Milani and Christopher J. Miller and Michelle Miller and David Mills and Dante Minniti and David Monet and Anjum S. Mukadam and Ehud Nakar and Douglas R. Neill and Jeffrey A. Newman and Sergei Nikolaev and Martin Nordby and Paul O'Connor and Masamune Oguri and John Oliver and Scot S. Olivier and Julia K. Olsen and Knut Olsen and Edward W. Olszewski and Hakeem Oluseyi and Nelson D. Padilla and Alex Parker and Joshua Pepper and John R. Peterson and Catherine Petry and Philip A. Pinto and James L. Pizagno and Bogdan Popescu and Andrej Prsa and Veljko Radcka and M. Jordan Raddick and Andrew Rasmussen and Arne Rau and Jeonghee Rho and James E. Rhoads and Gordon T. Richards and Stephen T. Ridgway and Brant E. Robertson and Rok Roskar and Abhijit Saha and Ata Sarajedini and Evan Scannapieco and Terry Schalk and Rafe Schindler and Samuel Schmidt and Sarah Schmidt and Donald P. Schneider and German Schumacher and Ryan Scranton and Jacques Sebag and Lynn G. Seppala and Ohad Shemmer and Joshua D. Simon and M. Sivertz and Howard A. Smith and J. Allyn Smith and Nathan Smith and Anna H. Spitz and Adam Stanford and Keivan G. Stassun and Jay Strader and Michael A. Strauss and Christopher W. Stubbs and Donald W. Sweeney and Alex Szalay and Paula Szkody and Masahiro Takada and Paul Thorman and David E. Trilling and Virginia Trimble and Anthony Tyson and Richard Van Berg and Daniel Vanden Berk and Jake VanderPlas and Licia Verde and Bojan Vrsnak and Lucianne M. Walkowicz and Benjamin D. Wandelt and Sheng Wang and Yun Wang and Michael Warner and Risa H. Wechsler and Andrew A. West and Oliver Wiecha and Benjamin F. Williams and Beth Willman and David Wittman and Sidney C. Wolff and W. Michael Wood-Vasey and Przemek Wozniak and Patrick Young and Andrew Zentner and Hu Zhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0201},
year = {2012}
}
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596 pages. Also available at full resolution at http://www.lsst.org/lsst/scibook