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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique…
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2019-08-13
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…
(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. The main science themes that drive the LSST system design are Dark Energy and Matter, the Solar System…
A large wide-field telescope and camera with optical throughput over 200 m^2 deg^2 -- a factor of 50 beyond what we currently have -- would enable the detection of faint moving or bursting optical objects: from Earth threatening asteroids…
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
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
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) surveys have initially been optimized to omit the inner part of the Milky Way disk/bar from deep and cadence observations. However it is now clear that the LSST will be powerful for Galactic…
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is conceived as an 8.4-m telescope with CCD or CMOS focal plane covering most of a field 0.6 m in diameter, the latter exceeding the size of the largest photographic plates ever used in astronomy.…
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly covering approximately $18,000$deg$^2$ of the sky over 800…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-14
Mario Jurić , Jeffrey Kantor , K-T Lim , Robert H. Lupton , Gregory Dubois-Felsmann , Tim Jenness , Tim S. Axelrod , Jovan Aleksić , Roberta A. Allsman , Yusra AlSayyad , Jason Alt , Robert Armstrong , Jim Basney , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Steven J. Bickerton , Rahul Biswas , James Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Matias Carrasco Kind , David R. Ciardi , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Gregory E. Daues , Frossie Economou , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Angelo Fausti , Merlin Fisher-Levine , D. Michael Freemon , Perry Gee , Philippe Gris , Fabio Hernandez , Joshua Hoblitt , Željko Ivezić , Fabrice Jammes , Darko Jevremović , R. Lynne Jones , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Vishal P. Kasliwal , K. Simon Krughoff , Dustin Lang , John Lurie , Nate B. Lust , Fergal Mullally , Lauren A. MacArthur , Peter Melchior , Joachim Moeyens , David L. Nidever , Russell Owen , John K Parejko , J. Matt Peterson , Donald Petravick , Stephen R. Pietrowicz , Paul A. Price , David J. Reiss , Richard A. Shaw , Jonathan Sick , Colin T. Slater , Michael A. Strauss , Ian S. Sullivan , John D. Swinbank , Schuyler Van Dyk , Veljko Vujčić , Alexander Withers , Peter Yoachim
Exploration of the time variability on the sky over a broad range of flux levels and wavelengths is rapidly becoming a new frontier of astronomical research. We describe here briefly the Palomar-QUEST survey being carried out from the…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
A. Mahabal , S. G. Djorgovski , M. J. Graham , R. Williams , B. Granett , M. Bogosavljevic , C. Baltay , D. Rabinowitz , A. Bauer , P. Andrews , N. Morgan , J. Snyder , N. Ellman , S. Duffau , J. Musser , S. Mufson , M. Gebhard , R. Brunner , A. Rengstorf
We describe the instrumentation and detection software and characterize the detection efficiency of an automated, all-sky, southern-hemisphere search for Kuiper Belt objects brighter than R mag 21.4. The search relies on Yale University's…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-05
David Rabinowitz , Megan E. Schwamb , Elena Hadjiyska , Suzanne Tourtellotte
The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a project to map $\sim9300$ sq deg of the sky using twelve bands (seven narrow and five broadbands). Observations are performed with the T80-South telescope, a robotic telescope…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
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We propose a LSST Solar System near-Sun Survey, to be implemented during twilight hours, that extends the seasonal reach of LSST to its maximum as fresh sky is uncovered at about 50 square degrees per night (1500 sq. deg. per lunation) in…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2018-12-04
Rob Seaman , Paul Abell , Eric Christensen , Michael S. P. Kelley , Megan E. Schwamb , Renu Malhotra , Mario Juric , Quanzhi Ye , Michael Mommert , Matthew M. Knight , Colin Snodgrass , Andrew S. Rivkin
We present the fourth data release (DR4) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS), the last major step in our hemispheric survey with six optical filters: u, v, g, r, i, z. SMSS DR4 covers 26,000 sq.deg from over 400,000 images acquired by…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2024-02-06
Christopher A. Onken , Christian Wolf , Michael S. Bessell , Seo-Won Chang , Lance C. Luvaul , John L. Tonry , Marc C. White , Gary S. Da Costa
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-08-11
The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. 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Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia
(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. Solar System mapping is one of the four key scientific design drivers, with emphasis on efficient Near-Earth…
Astrophysics · Physics
2008-11-26
Z. Ivezic , J. A. Tyson , M. Juric , J. Kubica , A. Connolly , F. Pierfederici , A. W. Harris , E. Bowell , the LSST Collaboration
We report on a plan to construct a 50-m-class single-dish telescope, the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST). The conceptual design and key science behind the LST are presented, together with its tentative specifications. This telescope is…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-02-07
Ryohei Kawabe , Kotaro Kohno , Yoichi Tamura , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Tai Oshima , Shun Ishii , LST working group
As a major component of the LAMOST Galactic surveys, the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-centre (LSS-GAC) aims to survey a significant volume of the Galactic thin/thick discs and halo for a contiguous sky area of over 3,400…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-23
Haibo Yuan , Xiaowei Liu , Zhiying Huo , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Bingqiu Chen , Huihua Zhang , Ningchen Sun , Chun Wang , Huawei Zhang , Yongheng Zhao , Ali Luo , Jianrong Shi , Guoping Li , Hailong Yuan , Yiqiao Dong , Guangwei Li , Yonghui Hou , Yong Zhang
The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of $\sim$80 deg$^2$ of the southern sky located in two fields: ($\alpha$,$\delta$)= (5 hr, $-55^{\circ}$) and (23 hr, $-55^{\circ}$). The survey was carried out between 2005 and…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2012-10-17
S. Desai , R. Armstrong , J. J. Mohr , D. R. Semler , J. Liu , E. Bertin , S. S. Alam , W. A. Barkhouse , G. Bazin , E. J. Buckley-Geer , M. C. Cooper , S. M. Hansen , F. W. High , H. Lin , Y. T. Lin , C. -C. Ngeow , A. Rest , J. Song , D. Tucker , A. Zenteno