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We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Bela Abolfathi , David Alonso , Robert Armstrong , Éric Aubourg , Humna Awan , Yadu N. Babuji , Franz Erik Bauer , Rachel Bean , George Beckett , Rahul Biswas , Joanne R. Bogart , Dominique Boutigny , Kyle Chard , James Chiang , Chuck F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Céline Combet , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Seth W. Digel , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Richard Dubois , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , Thomas Glanzman , Phillipe Gris , Salman Habib , Andrew P. Hearin , Katrin Heitmann , Fabio Hernandez , Renée Hložek , Joseph Hollowed , Mustapha Ishak , Željko Ivezić , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Steven M. Kahn , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Heather M. Kelly , Eve Kovacs , Danila Korytov , K. Simon Krughoff , Craig S. Lage , François Lanusse , Patricia Larsen , Laurent Le Guillou , Nan Li , Emily Phillips Longley , Robert H. Lupton , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yao-Yuan Mao , Phil Marshall , Joshua E. Meyers , Marc Moniez , Christopher B. Morrison , Andrei Nomerotski , Paul O'Connor , HyeYun Park , Ji Won Park , Julien Peloton , Daniel Perrefort , James Perry , Stéphane Plaszczynski , Adrian Pope , Andrew Rasmussen , Kevin Reil , Aaron J. Roodman , Eli S. Rykoff , F. Javier Sánchez , Samuel J. Schmidt , Daniel Scolnic , Christopher W. Stubbs , J. Anthony Tyson , Thomas D. Uram , Antonia Villarreal , Christopher W. Walter , Matthew P. Wiesner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Joe Zuntz

Like many areas of astrophysics and cosmology, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be transformational for almost all the applications of strong lensing, thanks to the dramatic increase in the number of known strong lenses by two orders of…

Some million Type Ia supernovae (SN) will be discovered and monitored during upcoming wide area time domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). For cosmological use, accurate redshifts are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Ayan Mitra , Eric V. Linder

Perhaps the most exciting promise of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is its capability to discover phenomena never before seen or predicted from theory: true astrophysical novelties, but the ability of LSST to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Xiaolong Li , Fabio Ragosta , William I. Clarkson , Federica B. Bianco

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitivity, angular resolution and large field of view make Roman…

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Roman Space Telescope, Euclid, and other next-generation surveys will deliver imaging, spectroscopic, and time-domain data at scales that increasingly shift the bottleneck in astronomical machine…

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including measurements of high-$z$ Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z \lesssim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lauren Aldoroty , Daniel Scolnic , Arun Kannawadi , Rob Knop , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Michael Troxel

The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-area survey in the near infrared. A key science objective is the measurement of cosmic structure via weak gravitational lensing. Roman data will be undersampled, which…

Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y over the…

The slitless grism on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable deep near-infrared spectroscopy over a wide field of view. We demonstrate Roman's capability to detect Ly$\alpha$ galaxies at $z>7$ using a multi-position-angle (PA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Isak G. B. Wold , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Vithal Tilvi , Austen Gabrielpillai

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are set to transform our understanding of the universe over the next decade. These two observatories have multiple areas of complementarity in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 J. Biteau , J. Hamo , A. Mikhno , J. Peloton , J. -P. Lenain

Launching a starshade to rendezvous with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would provide the first opportunity to directly image the habitable zones of nearby sunlike stars in the coming decade. A report on the science and feasibility…

Strong gravitational lensing is an ideal tool for mapping the distribution of dark matter and for testing the values of cosmological parameters. Forthcoming surveys such as Euclid and the Rubin Observatory LSST should increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Charles Weiner , Stephen Serjeant , Chris Sedgwick

A new generation of powerful dark energy experiments will open new vistas for cosmology in the next decade. However, these projects cannot reach their utmost potential without data from other telescopes. This white paper focuses in…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. Its weak lensing program is designed to enable unprecedented systematics control in photometric measurements, including shear recovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 M. A. Troxel , H. Long , C. M. Hirata , A. Choi , M. Jarvis , R. Mandelbaum , K. Wang , M. Yamamoto , S. Hemmati , P. Capak

NASA's next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and the Coronagraph Instrument. Roman's Coronagraph…

This note presents an initial survey design for the Nancy Grace Roman High-latitude Time Domain Survey. This is not meant to be a final or exhaustive list of all the survey strategy choices, but instead presents a viable path towards…