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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
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Ivezić, Željko; Kahn, Steven M.; Tyson, J. Anthony; Abel, Bob; Acosta, Emily; Allsman, Robyn; Alonso, David; AlSayyad, Yusra; Anderson, Scott F.; Andrew, John; Angel, James Roger P.; Angeli, George Z.; Ansari, Reza; Antilogus, Pierre; Araujo, Constanza; Armstrong, Robert; Arndt, Kirk T.; Astier, Pierre; Aubourg, Éric; Auza, Nicole; Axelrod, Tim S.; Bard, Deborah J.; Barr, Jeff D.; Barrau, Aurelian; Bartlett, James G.; Bauer, Amanda E.; Bauman, Brian J.; Baumont, Sylvain; Becker, Andrew C.; Becla, Jacek; Beldica, Cristina; Bellavia, Steve; Bianco, Federica B.; Biswas, Rahul; Blanc, Guillaume; Blazek, Jonathan; Blandford, Roger D.; Bloom, Josh S.; Bogart, Joanne; Bond, Tim W.; Borgland, Anders W.; Borne, Kirk; Bosch, James F.; Boutigny, Dominique; Brackett, Craig A.; Bradshaw, Andrew; Brandt, William Nielsen; Brown, Michael E.; Bullock, James S.; Burchat, Patricia; Burke, David L.; Cagnoli, Gianpietro; Calabrese, Daniel; Callahan, Shawn; Callen, Alice L.; Chandrasekharan, Srinivasan; Charles-Emerson, Glenaver; Chesley, Steve; Cheu, Elliott C.; Chiang, Hsin-Fang; Chiang, James; Chirino, Carol; Chow, Derek; Ciardi, David R.; Claver, Charles F.; Cohen-Tanugi, Johann; Cockrum, Joseph J.; Coles, Rebecca; Connolly, Andrew J.; Cook, Kem H.; Cooray, Asantha; Covey, Kevin R.; Cribbs, Chris; Cui, Wei; Cutri, Roc; Daly, Philip N.; Daniel, Scott F.; Daruich, Felipe; Daubard, Guillaume; Daues, Greg; Dawson, William; Delgado, Francisco; Dellapenna, Alfred; de Peyster, Robert; de Val-Borro, Miguel; Digel, Seth W.; Doherty, Peter; Dubois, Richard; Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory P.; Durech, Josef; Economou, Frossie; Eracleous, Michael; Ferguson, Henry; Figueroa, Enrique; Fisher-Levine, Merlin; Focke, Warren; Foss, Michael D.; Frank, James; Freemon, Michael D.; Gangler, Emmanuel; Gawiser, Eric; Geary, John C.; Gee, Perry; Geha, Marla; Gessner, Charles J. B.; Gibson, Robert R.; Gilmore, D. Kirk; Glanzman, Thomas; Glick, William; Goldina, Tatiana; Goldstein, Daniel A.; Goodenow, Iain; Graham, Melissa L.; Gressler, William J.; Gris, Philippe; Guy, Leanne P.; Guyonnet, Augustin; Haller, Gunther; Harris, Ron; Hascall, Patrick A.; Haupt, Justine; Hernandez, Fabio; Herrmann, Sven; Hileman, Edward; Hoblitt, Joshua; Hodgson, John A.; Hogan, Craig; Huang, Dajun; Huffer, Michael E.; Ingraham, Patrick; Innes, Walter R.; Jacoby, Suzanne H.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jammes, Fabrice; Jee, James; Jenness, Tim; Jernigan, Garrett; Jevremović, Darko; Johns, Kenneth; Johnson, Anthony S.; Johnson, Margaret W. G.; Jones, R. Lynne; Juramy-Gilles, Claire; Jurić, Mario; Kalirai, Jason S.; Kallivayalil, Nitya J.; Kalmbach, Bryce; Kantor, Jeffrey P.; Karst, Pierre; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Kelly, Heather; Kessler, Richard; Kinnison, Veronica; Kirkby, David; Knox, Lloyd; Kotov, Ivan V.; Krabbendam, Victor L.; Krughoff, K. Simon; Kubánek, Petr; Kuczewski, John; Kulkarni, Shri; Ku, John; Kurita, Nadine R.; Lage, Craig S.; Lambert, Ron; Lange, Travis; Langton, J. Brian; Guillou, Laurent Le; Levine, Deborah; Liang, Ming; Lim, Kian-Tat; Lintott, Chris J.; Long, Kevin E.; Lopez, Margaux; Lotz, Paul J.; Lupton, Robert H.; Lust, Nate B.; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Mahabal, Ashish; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Marsh, Darren S.; Marshall, Philip J.; Marshall, Stuart; May, Morgan; McKercher, Robert; McQueen, Michelle; Meyers, Joshua; Migliore, Myriam; Miller, Michelle; Mills, David J.; Miraval, Connor; Moeyens, Joachim; Monet, David G.; Moniez, Marc; Monkewitz, Serge; Montgomery, Christopher; Mueller, Fritz; Muller, Gary P.; Arancibia, Freddy Muñoz; Neill, Douglas R.; Newbry, Scott P.; Nief, Jean-Yves; Nomerotski, Andrei; Nordby, Martin; O'Connor, Paul; Oliver, John; Olivier, Scot S.; Olsen, Knut; O'Mullane, William; Ortiz, Sandra; Osier, Shawn; Owen, Russell E.; Pain, Reynald; Palecek, Paul E.; Parejko, John K.; Parsons, James B.; Pease, Nathan M.; Peterson, J. Matt; Peterson, John R.; Petravick, Donald L.; Petrick, M. E. Libby; Petry, Cathy E.; Pierfederici, Francesco; Pietrowicz, Stephen; Pike, Rob; Pinto, Philip A.; Plante, Raymond; Plate, Stephen; Price, Paul A.; Prouza, Michael; Radeka, Veljko; Rajagopal, Jayadev; Rasmussen, Andrew P.; Regnault, Nicolas; Reil, Kevin A.; Reiss, David J.; Reuter, Michael A.; Ridgway, Stephen T.; Riot, Vincent J.; Ritz, Steve; Robinson, Sean; Roby, William; Roodman, Aaron; Rosing, Wayne; Roucelle, Cecille; Rumore, Matthew R.; Russo, Stefano; Saha, Abhijit; Sassolas, Benoit; Schalk, Terry L.; Schellart, Pim; Schindler, Rafe H.; Schmidt, Samuel; Schneider, Donald P.; Schneider, Michael D.; Schoening, William; Schumacher, German; Schwamb, Megan E.; Sebag, Jacques; Selvy, Brian; Sembroski, Glenn H.; Seppala, Lynn G.; Serio, Andrew; Serrano, Eduardo; Shaw, Richard A.; Shipsey, Ian; Sick, Jonathan; Silvestri, Nicole; Slater, Colin T.; Smith, J. Allyn; Smith, R. Chris; Sobhani, Shahram; Soldahl, Christine; Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa; Stover, Edward; Strauss, Michael A.; Street, Rachel A.; Stubbs, Christopher W.; Sullivan, Ian S.; Sweeney, Donald; Swinbank, John D.; Szalay, Alexander; Takacs, Peter; Tether, Stephen A.; Thaler, Jon J.; Thayer, John Gregg; Thomas, Sandrine; Thukral, Vaikunth; Tice, Jeffrey; Trilling, David E.; Turri, Max; Van Berg, Richard; Berk, Daniel Vanden; Vetter, Kurt; Virieux, Francoise; Vucina, Tomislav; Wahl, William; Walkowicz, Lucianne; Walsh, Brian; Walter, Christopher W.; Wang, Daniel L.; Wang, Shin-Yawn; Warner, Michael; Wiecha, Oliver; Willman, Beth; Winters, Scott E.; Wittman, David; Wolff, Sidney C.; Wood-Vasey, W. Michael; Wu, Xiuqin; Xin, Bo; Yoachim, Peter; Zhan, Hu
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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 survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000 square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5$\sigma$ point-source depth in a single visit in $r$ will be $\sim 24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta<+34.5^\circ$, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, $ugrizy$, covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27.5$. The remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products, including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion objects, available to the public and scientists around the world.
Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview
Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview