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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is expected to increase known small solar system object populations by an order of magnitude or more over the next decade, enabling a broad array of transformative solar system science…

We have conducted a detailed simulation of LSST's ability to link near-Earth and main belt asteroid detections into orbits. The key elements of the study were a high-fidelity detection model and the presence of false detections in the form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Peter Vereš , Steven R. Chesley

Earth's temporarily-captured orbiters (TCOs) are a sub-population of near-Earth objects (NEOs). TCOs can provide constraints for NEO population models in the 1--10-metre-diameter range, and they are outstanding targets for in situ…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-07 Grigori Fedorets , Mikael Granvik , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Jurić , Robert Jedicke

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project will conduct a ten year multi-band survey starting in 2022. Observing strategies for this survey are being actively investigated, and the science capabilities can be best forecasted on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Rahul Biswas , Scott F. Daniel , R. Hložek , A. G. Kim , Peter Yoachim

A Large Size air Cherenkov Telescope (LST) prototype, proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is under construction at the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain) this year. The LST camera, which comprises an array of about 500…

We discuss the synergy of Gaia and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in the context of Milky Way studies. LSST can be thought of as Gaia's deep complement because the two surveys will deliver trigonometric parallax, proper-motion,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , Patricia Eliason

The NEAT (Nearby Earth Astrometric Telescope) mission is a proposition submitted to ESA for its 2010 call for M-size mission. The main scientific goal is to detect and characterize planetary systems in an exhaustive way down to 1 Earth mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Malbet , A. Léger , R. Goullioud , M. Shao , P. -O. Lagage , C. Cara , G. Durand , P. Feautrier , B. Jakobsson , E. Hinglais , M. Mercier

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visible-light telescope array designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence. LAST will be composed of 48, 28-cm f/2.2 telescopes (32 already installed)…

We present a detailed observational strategy for finding Near Earth Objects (NEOs) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope. We investigate strategies in normal, unbinned mode as well as binning the CCDs 2x2 or 3x3, which affects…

Wide-field surveys have markedly enhanced the discovery and study of solar system objects (SSOs). The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) represents the foremost facility dedicated to optical time-domain surveys in the northern…

The ESA Euclid mission is a space telescope that will survey ~15,000 square degrees of the sky, primarily to study the distant universe (constraining cosmological parameters through the lensing of galaxies). It is also expected to observe…

The 3.2 gigapixel LSST camera, an array of 189 thick fully-depleted CCDs, will repeatedly image the southern sky and accomplish a wide variety of science goals. However, its trove of tens of billions of object images implies stringent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Andrew K. Bradshaw , Craig Lage , J. Anthony Tyson

The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will detect many strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae (LSNe Ia) for time-delay cosmography. This will provide an independent and direct way for measuring the Hubble constant $H_0$, which is…

Modern astronomical surveys such as the Large Synoptic Sky Survey (LSST) promise an unprecedented wealth of discoveries, delivered in the form of ~10 million alerts of time-variable events per night. Astronomers are faced with the daunting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 R. A. Street , M. Bowman , E. S. Saunders , T. Boroson

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA observatory designed to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find the majority of objects large enough to cause severe…

Future weak lensing surveys potentially hold the highest statistical power for constraining cosmological parameters compared to other cosmological probes. The statistical power of a weak lensing survey is determined by the sky coverage, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 C. Chang , M. Jarvis , B. Jain , S. M. Kahn , D. Kirkby , A. Connolly , S. Krughoff , E. Peng , J. R. Peterson

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its main science goals is to create an…

The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a set of mission concepts for the next generation UV-Optical-Near Infrared space telescope with an aperture size of 8 to 16 meters. ATLAST, using an internal coronagraph or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-20 M. Postman , W. Traub , J. Krist , K. Stapelfeldt , R. Brown , W. Oegerle , A. Lo , M. Clampin , R. Soummer , J. Wiseman , M. Mountain

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics 32 2k$\times$4k fully depleted CCDs, providing a $\sim$20…

The DRAO Synthesis Telescope (ST) is a forefront telescope for imaging large-scale neutral hydrogen and polarized radio continuum emission at arcminute resolution. Equipped for observations at 1420 and 408 MHz, the ST completed the Canadian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 T. L. Landecker , L. Belostotski , J. C. Brown , B. R. Carlson , X. Du , T. Foster , A. S. Hill , T. Johnson , R. Kothes , M. Rupen , S. Safi-Harb , K. Vanderlinde , B. G. Veidt , J. L. West