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The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion of the SDSS-I project (whose successor, SDSS-II will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy

An Information-Theoretic Metric for Transient Classification and Novelty Detection

The development of the observing strategy for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) requires a broad optimization across science cases inside and outside of time-domain astronomy. We introduce a novel metric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Yu-Qian , Ouyang , Alex I. Malz , Ming Lian , Shar Daniels , Federica Bianco , Mathilda Nilsson

Observed Dust Surface Density Across Cosmic Times

Our ability to interpret observations of galaxies and trace their stellar, gas, and dust content over cosmic time critically relies on our understanding of how the dust abundance and properties vary with environment. Here, we compute the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-16 Céline Péroux , Annalisa De Cia , J. Christopher Howk

The Deep Lens Survey

The Deep Lens Survey (DLS) is a deep BVRz' imaging survey of seven 2x2 degree fields, with all data to be made public. The primary scientific driver is weak gravitational lensing, but the survey is also designed to enable a wide array of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Wittman , J. A. Tyson , I. P. Dell'Antonio , A. C. Becker , V. E. Margoniner , J. Cohen , D. Norman , D. Loomba , G. Squires , G. Wilson , C. Stubbs , J. Hennawi , D. Spergel , P. Boeshaar , A. Clocchiatti , M. Hamuy , G. Bernstein , A. Gonzalez , P. Guhathakurta , W. Hu , U. Seljak , D. Zaritsky

Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to revolutionize solar system astronomy. Unprecedented in scale, this ten-year wide-field survey will collect billions of observations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Stephanie R. Merritt , Grigori Fedorets , Megan E. Schwamb , Samuel Cornwall , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Mario Juric , Matthew J. Holman , Jacob A. Kurlander , Siegfried Eggl , Drew Oldag , Maxine West , Jeremy Kubica , Joseph Murtagh , R. Lynne Jones , Peter Yoachim , Ryan R. Lyttle , Michael S. P. Kelley , Joachim Moeyens , Kathleen Kiker , Shantanu P. Naidu , Colin Snodgrass , Shannon M. Matthews , Colin Orion Chandler

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Methodology and Projections for Joint Analysis of Galaxy Clustering, Galaxy Lensing, and CMB Lensing Two-point Functions

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recently, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration used a joint fit to two-point correlations between these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 E. J. Baxter , Y. Omori , C. Chang , T. Giannantonio , D. Kirk , E. Krause , J. Blazek , L. Bleem , A. Choi , T. M. Crawford , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , G. P. Holder , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , A. Nicola , S. Pandey , J. Prat , C. L. Reichardt , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , A. R. Walker , W. L. K. Wu , J. Weller

Everything we'd like to do with LSST data, but we don't know (yet) how

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the next-generation optical imaging survey sited at Cerro Pachon in Chile, will provide an unprecedented database of astronomical measurements. The LSST design, with an 8.4m (6.7m effective)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Željko Ivezić , Andrew J. Connolly , Mario Jurić

Cosmology constraints from shear peak statistics in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

Shear peak statistics has gained a lot of attention recently as a practical alternative to the two point statistics for constraining cosmological parameters. We perform a shear peak statistics analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Kacprzak , D. Kirk , O. Friedrich , A. Amara , A. Refregier , L. Marian , J. P. Dietrich , E. Suchyta , J. Aleksić , D. Bacon , M. R. Becker , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , C. Chang , T. F. Eifler , W. Hartley , E. M. Huff , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , P. Melchior , A. Nicola , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , J. Weller , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , R. Armstrong , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: $w$CDM cosmology from simulation-based inference with persistent homology on the sphere

We present cosmological constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using persistent homology, a topological data analysis technique that tracks how features like clusters and voids evolve across density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-31 J. Prat , M. Gatti , C. Doux , P. Pranav , C. Chang , N. Jeffrey , L. Whiteway , D. Anbajagane , S. Sugiyama , A. Thomsen , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , E. M. Huff , I. Harrison , K. Herner , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , J. Carretero , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , M. E. da Silva Pereira , H. T. Diehl , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , L. N. da Costa , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , D. Thomas , C. To , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, across half the sky and over ten years of repeated observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 LSST Science Collaboration , Phil Marshall , Timo Anguita , Federica B. Bianco , Eric C. Bellm , Niel Brandt , Will Clarkson , Andy Connolly , Eric Gawiser , Zeljko Ivezic , Lynne Jones , Michelle Lochner , Michael B. Lund , Ashish Mahabal , David Nidever , Knut Olsen , Stephen Ridgway , Jason Rhodes , Ohad Shemmer , David Trilling , Kathy Vivas , Lucianne Walkowicz , Beth Willman , Peter Yoachim , Scott Anderson , Pierre Antilogus , Ruth Angus , Iair Arcavi , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Keaton J. Bell , David Bennett , Chris Britt , Derek Buzasi , Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Laura Chomiuk , Chuck Claver , Kem Cook , James Davenport , Victor Debattista , Seth Digel , Zoheyr Doctor , R. E. Firth , Ryan Foley , Wen-fai Fong , Lluis Galbany , Mark Giampapa , John E. Gizis , Melissa L. Graham , Carl Grillmair , Phillipe Gris , Zoltan Haiman , Patrick Hartigan , Suzanne Hawley , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , C. Johns-Krull , Shashi Kanbur , Vassiliki Kalogera , Vinay Kashyap , Vishal Kasliwal , Richard Kessler , Alex Kim , Peter Kurczynski , Ofer Lahav , Michael C. Liu , Alex Malz , Raffaella Margutti , Tom Matheson , Jason D. McEwen , Peregrine McGehee , Soren Meibom , Josh Meyers , Dave Monet , Eric Neilsen , Jeffrey Newman , Matt O'Dowd , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matthew T. Penny , Christina Peters , Radoslaw Poleski , Kara Ponder , Gordon Richards , Jeonghee Rho , David Rubin , Samuel Schmidt , Robert L. Schuhmann , Avi Shporer , Colin Slater , Nathan Smith , Marcelles Soares-Santos , Keivan Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael Strauss , Rachel Street , Christopher Stubbs , Mark Sullivan , Paula Szkody , Virginia Trimble , Tony Tyson , Miguel de Val-Borro , Stefano Valenti , Robert Wagoner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Bevin Ashley Zauderer

Scale-Aware Navigation of Astronomical Survey Imagery Data on High Resolution Immersive Displays

Upcoming astronomical surveys produce imagery that spans many orders of magnitude in spatial scale, requiring scientists to reason fluidly between global structure and local detail. Data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory exemplifies this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ava Nederlander , Zainab Aamir , Arie E. Kaufman

Getting ready for the LSST data -- estimating the physical properties of $z<2.5$ main sequence galaxies

In this work we study how to employ the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data to constrain physical properties of normal, star forming galaxies. We use simulated LSST data and existing real observations to test the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Gabriele Riccio , Katarzyna Małek , Ambra Nanni , Mederic Boquien , Veronique Buat , Denis Burgarella , Darko Donevski , Mahmoud Hamed , Peter Hurley , Raphael Shirley , Agnieszka Pollo

Halo Occupation Distribution estimation performance for LSST data

Upcoming imaging surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will enable high signal-to-noise measurements of galaxy clustering. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a widely used framework to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 P. Cataldi , V. Cristiani , F. Rodriguez , A. Taverna , M. C. Artale , B. Levine , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

CosmoHub: Interactive exploration and distribution of astronomical data on Hadoop

We present CosmoHub (https://cosmohub.pic.es), a web application based on Hadoop to perform interactive exploration and distribution of massive cosmological datasets. Recent Cosmology seeks to unveil the nature of both dark matter and dark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Pau Tallada , Jorge Carretero , Jordi Casals , Carles Acosta-Silva , Santiago Serrano , Marc Caubet , Francisco J. Castander , Eduardo César , Martín Crocce , Manuel Delfino , Martin Eriksen , Pablo Fosalba , Enrique Gaztañaga , Gonzalo Merino , Christian Neissner , Nadia Tonello

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 LSST Science Collaboration , Paul A. Abell , Julius Allison , Scott F. Anderson , John R. Andrew , J. Roger P. Angel , Lee Armus , David Arnett , S. J. Asztalos , Tim S. Axelrod , Stephen Bailey , D. R. Ballantyne , Justin R. Bankert , Wayne A. Barkhouse , Jeffrey D. Barr , L. Felipe Barrientos , Aaron J. Barth , James G. Bartlett , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Timothy C. Beers , Joseph P. Bernstein , Rahul Biswas , Michael R. Blanton , Joshua S. Bloom , John J. Bochanski , Pat Boeshaar , Kirk D. Borne , Marusa Bradac , W. N. Brandt , Carrie R. Bridge , Michael E. Brown , Robert J. Brunner , James S. Bullock , Adam J. Burgasser , James H. Burge , David L. Burke , Phillip A. Cargile , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , George Chartas , Steven R. Chesley , You-Hua Chu , David Cinabro , Mark W. Claire , Charles F. Claver , Douglas Clowe , A. J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Jeff Cooke , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Christopher S. Culliton , Roelof de Jong , Willem H. de Vries , Victor P. Debattista , Francisco Delgado , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Saurav Dhital , Rosanne Di Stefano , Mark Dickinson , Benjamin Dilday , S. G. Djorgovski , Gregory Dobler , Ciro Donalek , Gregory Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Ardis Eliasdottir , Michael Eracleous , Laurent Eyer , Emilio E. Falco , Xiaohui Fan , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Harry C. Ferguson , Yanga R. Fernandez , Brian D. Fields , Douglas Finkbeiner , Eduardo E. Figueroa , Derek B. Fox , Harold Francke , James S. Frank , Josh Frieman , Sebastien Fromenteau , Muhammad Furqan , Gaspar Galaz , A. Gal-Yam , Peter Garnavich , Eric Gawiser , John Geary , Perry Gee , Robert R. Gibson , Kirk Gilmore , Emily A. Grace , Richard F. Green , William J. Gressler , Carl J. Grillmair , Salman Habib , J. S. Haggerty , Mario Hamuy , Alan W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Alan F. Heavens , Leslie Hebb , Todd J. Henry , Edward Hileman , Eric J. Hilton , Keri Hoadley , J. B. Holberg , Matt J. Holman , Steve B. Howell , Leopoldo Infante , Zeljko Ivezic , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , R , Jedicke , M. James Jee , J. Garrett Jernigan , Saurabh W. Jha , Kathryn V. Johnston , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , Mikko Kaasalainen , Styliani , Kafka , Steven M. Kahn , Nathan A. Kaib , Jason Kalirai , Jeff Kantor , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Charles R. Keeton , Richard Kessler , Zoran Knezevic , Adam Kowalski , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Shrinivas Kulkarni , Stephen Kuhlman , Mark Lacy , Sebastien Lepine , Ming Liang , Amy Lien , Paulina Lira , Knox S. Long , Suzanne Lorenz , Jennifer M. Lotz , R. H. Lupton , Julie Lutz , Lucas M. Macri , Ashish A. Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Morgan May , Peregrine M. McGehee , Brian T. Meadows , Alan Meert , Andrea Milani , Christopher J. Miller , Michelle Miller , David Mills , Dante Minniti , David Monet , Anjum S. Mukadam , Ehud Nakar , Douglas R. Neill , Jeffrey A. Newman , Sergei Nikolaev , Martin Nordby , Paul O'Connor , Masamune Oguri , John Oliver , Scot S. Olivier , Julia K. Olsen , Knut Olsen , Edward W. Olszewski , Hakeem Oluseyi , Nelson D. Padilla , Alex Parker , Joshua Pepper , John R. Peterson , Catherine Petry , Philip A. Pinto , James L. Pizagno , Bogdan Popescu , Andrej Prsa , Veljko Radcka , M. Jordan Raddick , Andrew Rasmussen , Arne Rau , Jeonghee Rho , James E. Rhoads , Gordon T. Richards , Stephen T. Ridgway , Brant E. Robertson , Rok Roskar , Abhijit Saha , Ata Sarajedini , Evan Scannapieco , Terry Schalk , Rafe Schindler , Samuel Schmidt , Sarah Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , German Schumacher , Ryan Scranton , Jacques Sebag , Lynn G. Seppala , Ohad Shemmer , Joshua D. Simon , M. Sivertz , Howard A. Smith , J. Allyn Smith , Nathan Smith , Anna H. Spitz , Adam Stanford , Keivan G. Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael A. Strauss , Christopher W. Stubbs , Donald W. Sweeney , Alex Szalay , Paula Szkody , Masahiro Takada , Paul Thorman , David E. Trilling , Virginia Trimble , Anthony Tyson , Richard Van Berg , Daniel Vanden Berk , Jake VanderPlas , Licia Verde , Bojan Vrsnak , Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Sheng Wang , Yun Wang , Michael Warner , Risa H. Wechsler , Andrew A. West , Oliver Wiecha , Benjamin F. Williams , Beth Willman , David Wittman , Sidney C. Wolff , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Przemek Wozniak , Patrick Young , Andrew Zentner , Hu Zhan

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Report of the CF04 Topical Group on Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration in the Modern Universe

Cosmological observations in the new millennium have dramatically increased our understanding of the Universe, but several fundamental questions remain unanswered. This topical group report describes the best opportunities to address these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 James Annis , Jeffrey A. Newman , Anže Slosar

The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitute the first major data sample from the DESI survey. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , C. Allende Prieto , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Armengaud , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , O. Ballester , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Bautista , J. Behera , S. F. Beltran , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , A. Berti , R. Besuner , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , Z. Brown , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , L. Cabayol-Garcia , Z. Cai , R. Canning , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , C. Chuang , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , J. Della Costa , A. de Mattia , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , G. Dhungana , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , R. Doshi , K. Douglass , A. Edge , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , V. A. Fawcett , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Á. García , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , H. Gil-Marín , J. Golden-Marx , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jacques , A. Jana , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , S. Joudaki , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. Kizhuprakkat , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , S. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. Kitaura , J. Kneib , S. E. Koposov , A. Kovács , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , B. L'Huillier , O. Lahav , A. Lambert , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , A. Leauthaud , L. Le Guillou , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , A. Lyons , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , J. Mundet , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , J. Nie , R. Nikutta , G. Niz , P. Norberg , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , P. Zhiwei , D. Parkinson , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. Pieri , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , S. Pothier , F. Prada , R. Pucha , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , A. Saintonge , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. Schaan , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , W. Sheu , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , M. T. Soumagnac , D. Sprayberry , L. Stephey , J. Suárez-Pérez , Z. Sun , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , R. Tojeiro , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Valluri , M. Vargas-Magaña , A. Variu , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , M. White , Y. Xie , J. Yang , C. Yèche , J. Yu , S. Yuan , H. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , Z. Zheng , R. Zhou , Z. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu

Unveiling the Rich and Diverse Universe of Subsecond Astrophysics through LSST Star Trails

We present a unique method that allows the LSST to scan the sky for stellar variability on short timescales. The operational component of the strategy requires LSST to take star trail images. The image processing component uses deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 David Thomas , Steven M. Kahn , Federica B. Bianco , Željko Ivezić , Claudia M. Raiteri , Andrea Possenti , John R. Peterson , Colin J. Burke , Robert D. Blum , George H. Jacoby , Steve B. Howell , Grzegorz Madejski

The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) Survey: Survey Overview and Data Release 1

A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky. Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Daniel Masters , Daniel Stern , Judith Cohen , Peter Capak , Jason Rhodes , Francisco Castander , Stephane Paltani

Mock Galaxy Surveys for HST and JWST from the IllustrisTNG Simulations

We present and analyze a series of synthetic galaxy survey fields based on the IllustrisTNG Simulation suite. With the Illustris public data release and JupyterLab service, we generated a set of twelve lightcone catalogs covering areas from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Gregory F. Snyder , Theodore Pena , L. Y. Aaron Yung , Caitlin Rose , Jeyhan Kartaltepe , Harry Ferguson