LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
2019
In the
historyof
astronomy, major advances in our understanding of the Universe frequently arise from dramatic improvements in our ability to accurately measure astronomical quantities. Aided by rapid progress in information technology, current
skysurveys are changing the way we view and study the Universe. Next-generation surveys will maintain this revolutionary progress. We focus here on the most ambitious survey currently planned in the visible band, the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope(LSST). 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 large, widefield ground-based system designed to obtain multiple images covering the
skythat is visible from
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