LSST 与 WFIRST 协同银心巡天的独特科学
天体物理仪器与方法
2018-12-12 v1 地球与行星天体物理
太阳与恒星天体物理
摘要
NASA 的 WFIRST 任务将通过对银心进行宽场近红外巡天,利用微透镜技术搜寻系外行星。由于该任务定于 2020 年代中期发射,约在 LSST 主巡天进行到一半时,我们拥有一个独特机会来探索两项标志性计划之间的协同科学。LSST 可在单个深场钻探区中对 WFIRST 微透镜巡天的整个足迹进行巡天。在此我们探讨该提案的巨大科学潜力并推荐最有效的观测策略。
引用
@article{arxiv.1812.04445,
title = {Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge},
author = {R. A. Street and M. B. Lund and M. Donachie and S. Khakpash and N. Golovich and M. Penny and D. Bennett and W. A. Dawson and J. Pepper and M. Rabus and P. Szkody and W. I. Clarkson and R. Di Stefano and N. Rattenbury and M. P. G. Hundertmark and Y. Tsapras and S. Ridgway and K. Stassun and V. Bozza and A. Bhattacharya and S. Calchi Novati and Y. Shvartzvald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04445},
year = {2018}
}
备注
White Paper submitted to the 2018 call for LSST cadence proposals. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.03137