NASA's WFIRST mission will perform a wide-field, NIR survey of the Galactic Bulge to search for exoplanets via the microlensing techniques. As the mission is due to launch in the mid-2020s, around half-way through the LSST Main Survey, we have a unique opportunity to explore synergistic science from two landmark programs. LSST can survey the entire footprint of the WFIRST microlensing survey in a single Deep Drilling Field. Here we explore the great scientific potential of this proposal and recommend the most effective observing strategies.
@article{arxiv.1812.04445,
title = {Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge},
author = {R. A. Street and M. B. Lund and M. Donachie and S. Khakpash and N. Golovich and M. Penny and D. Bennett and W. A. Dawson and J. Pepper and M. Rabus and P. Szkody and W. I. Clarkson and R. Di Stefano and N. Rattenbury and M. P. G. Hundertmark and Y. Tsapras and S. Ridgway and K. Stassun and V. Bozza and A. Bhattacharya and S. Calchi Novati and Y. Shvartzvald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04445},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
White Paper submitted to the 2018 call for LSST cadence proposals. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.03137