LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Creators: name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Kahn, Steven M.
name: Tyson, J. Anthony
name: Abel, Bob
name: Acosta, Emily
name: Allsman, Robyn
name: Alonso, David
name: AlSayyad, Yusra
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Andrew, John
name: Angel, James Roger P.
name: Angeli, George Z.
name: Ansari, Reza
name: Antilogus, Pierre
name: Araujo, Constanza
name: Armstrong, Robert
name: Arndt, Kirk T.
name: Astier, Pierre
name: Aubourg, Éric
name: Auza, Nicole
name: Axelrod, Tim S.
name: Bard, Deborah J.
name: Barr, Jeff D.
name: Barrau, Aurelian
name: Bartlett, James G.
name: Bauer, Amanda E.
name: Bauman, Brian J.
name: Baumont, Sylvain
name: Becker, Andrew C.
name: Becla, Jacek
name: Beldica, Cristina
name: Bellavia, Steve
name: Bianco, Federica B.
name: Biswas, Rahul
name: Blanc, Guillaume
name: Blazek, Jonathan
name: Blandford, Roger D.
name: Bloom, Josh S.
name: Bogart, Joanne
name: Bond, Tim W.
name: Borgland, Anders W.
name: Borne, Kirk
name: Bosch, James F.
name: Boutigny, Dominique
name: Brackett, Craig A.
name: Bradshaw, Andrew
name: Brandt, William Nielsen
name: Brown, Michael E.
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Burchat, Patricia
name: Burke, David L.
name: Cagnoli, Gianpietro
name: Calabrese, Daniel
name: Callahan, Shawn
name: Callen, Alice L.
name: Chandrasekharan, Srinivasan
name: Charles-Emerson, Glenaver
name: Chesley, Steve
name: Cheu, Elliott C.
name: Chiang, Hsin-Fang
name: Chiang, James
name: Chirino, Carol
name: Chow, Derek
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Claver, Charles F.
name: Cohen-Tanugi, Johann
name: Cockrum, Joseph J.
name: Coles, Rebecca
name: Connolly, Andrew J.
name: Cook, Kem H.
name: Cooray, Asantha
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Cribbs, Chris
name: Cui, Wei
name: Cutri, Roc
name: Daly, Philip N.
name: Daniel, Scott F.
name: Daruich, Felipe
name: Daubard, Guillaume
name: Daues, Greg
name: Dawson, William
name: Delgado, Francisco
name: Dellapenna, Alfred
name: de Peyster, Robert
name: de Val-Borro, Miguel
name: Digel, Seth W.
name: Doherty, Peter
name: Dubois, Richard
name: Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory P.
name: Durech, Josef
name: Economou, Frossie
name: Eracleous, Michael
name: Ferguson, Henry
name: Figueroa, Enrique
name: Fisher-Levine, Merlin
name: Focke, Warren
name: Foss, Michael D.
name: Frank, James
name: Freemon, Michael D.
name: Gangler, Emmanuel
name: Gawiser, Eric
name: Geary, John C.
name: Gee, Perry
name: Geha, Marla
name: Gessner, Charles J. B.
name: Gibson, Robert R.
name: Gilmore, D. Kirk
name: Glanzman, Thomas
name: Glick, William
name: Goldina, Tatiana
name: Goldstein, Daniel A.
name: Goodenow, Iain
name: Graham, Melissa L.
name: Gressler, William J.
name: Gris, Philippe
name: Guy, Leanne P.
name: Guyonnet, Augustin
name: Haller, Gunther
name: Harris, Ron
name: Hascall, Patrick A.
name: Haupt, Justine
name: Hernandez, Fabio
name: Herrmann, Sven
name: Hileman, Edward
name: Hoblitt, Joshua
name: Hodgson, John A.
name: Hogan, Craig
name: Huang, Dajun
name: Huffer, Michael E.
name: Ingraham, Patrick
name: Innes, Walter R.
name: Jacoby, Suzanne H.
name: Jain, Bhuvnesh
name: Jammes, Fabrice
name: Jee, James
name: Jenness, Tim
name: Jernigan, Garrett
name: Jevremović, Darko
name: Johns, Kenneth
name: Johnson, Anthony S.
name: Johnson, Margaret W. G.
name: Jones, R. Lynne
name: Juramy-Gilles, Claire
name: Jurić, Mario
name: Kalirai, Jason S.
name: Kallivayalil, Nitya J.
name: Kalmbach, Bryce
name: Kantor, Jeffrey P.
name: Karst, Pierre
name: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
name: Kelly, Heather
name: Kessler, Richard
name: Kinnison, Veronica
name: Kirkby, David
name: Knox, Lloyd
name: Kotov, Ivan V.
name: Krabbendam, Victor L.
name: Krughoff, K. Simon
name: Kubánek, Petr
name: Kuczewski, John
name: Kulkarni, Shri
name: Ku, John
name: Kurita, Nadine R.
name: Lage, Craig S.
name: Lambert, Ron
name: Lange, Travis
name: Langton, J. Brian
name: Guillou, Laurent Le
name: Levine, Deborah
name: Liang, Ming
name: Lim, Kian-Tat
name: Lintott, Chris J.
name: Long, Kevin E.
name: Lopez, Margaux
name: Lotz, Paul J.
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Lust, Nate B.
name: MacArthur, Lauren A.
name: Mahabal, Ashish
name: Mandelbaum, Rachel
name: Marsh, Darren S.
name: Marshall, Philip J.
name: Marshall, Stuart
name: May, Morgan
name: McKercher, Robert
name: McQueen, Michelle
name: Meyers, Joshua
name: Migliore, Myriam
name: Miller, Michelle
name: Mills, David J.
name: Miraval, Connor
name: Moeyens, Joachim
name: Monet, David G.
name: Moniez, Marc
name: Monkewitz, Serge
name: Montgomery, Christopher
name: Mueller, Fritz
name: Muller, Gary P.
name: Arancibia, Freddy Muñoz
name: Neill, Douglas R.
name: Newbry, Scott P.
name: Nief, Jean-Yves
name: Nomerotski, Andrei
name: Nordby, Martin
name: O'Connor, Paul
name: Oliver, John
name: Olivier, Scot S.
name: Olsen, Knut
name: O'Mullane, William
name: Ortiz, Sandra
name: Osier, Shawn
name: Owen, Russell E.
name: Pain, Reynald
name: Palecek, Paul E.
name: Parejko, John K.
name: Parsons, James B.
name: Pease, Nathan M.
name: Peterson, J. Matt
name: Peterson, John R.
name: Petravick, Donald L.
name: Petrick, M. E. Libby
name: Petry, Cathy E.
name: Pierfederici, Francesco
name: Pietrowicz, Stephen
name: Pike, Rob
name: Pinto, Philip A.
name: Plante, Raymond
name: Plate, Stephen
name: Price, Paul A.
name: Prouza, Michael
name: Radeka, Veljko
name: Rajagopal, Jayadev
name: Rasmussen, Andrew P.
name: Regnault, Nicolas
name: Reil, Kevin A.
name: Reiss, David J.
name: Reuter, Michael A.
name: Ridgway, Stephen T.
name: Riot, Vincent J.
name: Ritz, Steve
name: Robinson, Sean
name: Roby, William
name: Roodman, Aaron
name: Rosing, Wayne
name: Roucelle, Cecille
name: Rumore, Matthew R.
name: Russo, Stefano
name: Saha, Abhijit
name: Sassolas, Benoit
name: Schalk, Terry L.
name: Schellart, Pim
name: Schindler, Rafe H.
name: Schmidt, Samuel
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Schneider, Michael D.
name: Schoening, William
name: Schumacher, German
name: Schwamb, Megan E.
name: Sebag, Jacques
name: Selvy, Brian
name: Sembroski, Glenn H.
name: Seppala, Lynn G.
name: Serio, Andrew
name: Serrano, Eduardo
name: Shaw, Richard A.
name: Shipsey, Ian
name: Sick, Jonathan
name: Silvestri, Nicole
name: Slater, Colin T.
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Smith, R. Chris
name: Sobhani, Shahram
name: Soldahl, Christine
name: Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa
name: Stover, Edward
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Street, Rachel A.
name: Stubbs, Christopher W.
name: Sullivan, Ian S.
name: Sweeney, Donald
name: Swinbank, John D.
name: Szalay, Alexander
name: Takacs, Peter
name: Tether, Stephen A.
name: Thaler, Jon J.
name: Thayer, John Gregg
name: Thomas, Sandrine
name: Thukral, Vaikunth
name: Tice, Jeffrey
name: Trilling, David E.
name: Turri, Max
name: Van Berg, Richard
name: Berk, Daniel Vanden
name: Vetter, Kurt
name: Virieux, Francoise
name: Vucina, Tomislav
name: Wahl, William
name: Walkowicz, Lucianne
name: Walsh, Brian
name: Walter, Christopher W.
name: Wang, Daniel L.
name: Wang, Shin-Yawn
name: Warner, Michael
name: Wiecha, Oliver
name: Willman, Beth
name: Winters, Scott E.
name: Wittman, David
name: Wolff, Sidney C.
name: Wood-Vasey, W. Michael
name: Wu, Xiuqin
name: Xin, Bo
name: Yoachim, Peter
name: Zhan, Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (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 Pachón 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$σ$ 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 $δ
description: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview