The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document
Abstract
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) will use five cosmological probes: galaxy clusters, large scale structure, supernovae, strong lensing, and weak lensing. This Science Requirements Document (SRD) quantifies the expected dark energy constraining power of these probes individually and together, with conservative assumptions about analysis methodology and follow-up observational resources based on our current understanding and the expected evolution within the field in the coming years. We then define requirements on analysis pipelines that will enable us to achieve our goal of carrying out a dark energy analysis consistent with the Dark Energy Task Force definition of a Stage IV dark energy experiment. This is achieved through a forecasting process that incorporates the flowdown to detailed requirements on multiple sources of systematic uncertainty. Future versions of this document will include evolution in our software capabilities and analysis plans along with updates to the LSST survey strategy.
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@article{arxiv.1809.01669,
title = {The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document},
author = {The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration and Rachel Mandelbaum and Tim Eifler and Renée Hložek and Thomas Collett and Eric Gawiser and Daniel Scolnic and David Alonso and Humna Awan and Rahul Biswas and Jonathan Blazek and Patricia Burchat and Nora Elisa Chisari and Ian Dell'Antonio and Seth Digel and Josh Frieman and Daniel A. Goldstein and Isobel Hook and Željko Ivezić and Steven M. Kahn and Sowmya Kamath and David Kirkby and Thomas Kitching and Elisabeth Krause and Pierre-François Leget and Philip J. Marshall and Joshua Meyers and Hironao Miyatake and Jeffrey A. Newman and Robert Nichol and Eli Rykoff and F. Javier Sanchez and Anže Slosar and Mark Sullivan and M. A. Troxel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01669},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
32 pages + 60 pages of appendices. This is v1.0.2 of the DESC SRD, an internal collaboration document that is being made public and is not planned for submission to a journal. Data products for reproducing key plots are available on Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1409815 ; see "Executive Summary and User Guide" for how to use and cite those products