LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

(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...

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Autores principales: Ivezic, Z, Tyson, J, Abel, B, Acosta, E, Allsman, R, AlSayyad, Y, Anderson, S, Andrew, J, Angel, R, Angeli, G, Ansari, R, Antilogus, P, Arndt, K, Astier, P, Aubourg, E, Axelrod, T, Bard, D, Barr, J, Barrau, A, Bartlett, J, Bauman, B, Beaumont, S, Becker, A, Becla, J, Beldica, C
Formato: Journal article
Publicado: 2008