Rubin Observatory LSST Transients and Variable Stars Roadmap
Abstract
The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time holds the potential to revolutionize time domain astrophysics, reaching completely unexplored areas of the Universe and mapping variability time scales from minutes to a decade. To prepare to maximize the potential of the Rubin LSST data for the exploration of the transient and variable Universe, one of the four pillars of Rubin LSST science, the Transient and Variable Stars Science Collaboration, one of the eight Rubin LSST Science Collaborations, has identified research areas of interest and requirements, and paths to enable them. While our roadmap is ever-evolving, this document represents a snapshot of our plans and preparatory work in the final years and months leading up to the survey's first light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.04499,
title = {Rubin Observatory LSST Transients and Variable Stars Roadmap},
author = {Kelly M. Hambleton and Federica B. Bianco and Rachel Street and Keaton Bell and David Buckley and Melissa Graham and Nina Hernitschek and Michael B. Lund and Elena Mason and Joshua Pepper and Andrej Prsa and Markus Rabus and Claudia M. Raiteri and Robert Szabo and Paula Szkody and Igor Andreoni and Simone Antoniucci and Barbara Balmaverde and Eric Bellm and Rosaria Bonito and Giuseppe Bono and Maria Teresa Botticella and Enzo Brocato and Katja Bucar Bricman and Enrico Cappellaro and Maria Isabel Carnerero and Ryan Chornock and Riley Clarke and Phil Cowperthwaite and Antonino Cucchiara and Filippo D'Ammando and Kristen C. Dage and Massimo Dall'Ora and James R. A. Davenport and Domitilla de Martino and Giulia de Somma and Marcella Di Criscienzo and Rosanne Di Stefano and Maria Drout and Michele Fabrizio and Giuliana Fiorentino and Poshak Gandhi and Alessia Garofalo and Teresa Giannini and Andreja Gomboc and Laura Greggio and Patrick Hartigan and Markus Hundertmark and Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Johnson and Tomislav Jurkic and Somayeh Khakpash and Silvio Leccia and Xiaolong Li and Davide Magurno and Konstantin Malanchev and Marcella Marconi and Raffaella Margutti and Silvia Marinoni and Nicolas Mauron and Roberto Molinaro and Anais Moller and Marc Moniez and Tatiana Muraveva and Ilaria Musella and Chow-Choong Ngeow and Andrea Pastorello and Vincenzo Petrecca and Silvia Piranomonte and Fabio Ragosta and Andrea Reguitti and Chiara Righi and Vincenzo Ripepi and Liliana Rivera Sandoval and Keivan G. Stassun and Michael Stroh and Giacomo Terreran and Virginia Trimble and Yiannis Tsapras and Sjoert van Velzen and Laura Venuti and Jorick S. Vink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04499},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
202 pages (in book format) 34 figures plus chapter heading figures (13)