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LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

2009; Cornell University; Linguagem: Inglês

10.48550/arxiv.0912.0201

LSST Science Collaboration, P. A. Abell, Julius Allison, Scott F. Anderson, John Andrew, J. R. P. Angel, L. Armus, David Arnett, S. J. Asztalos, T. S. Axelrod, S. Bailey, D. R. Ballantyne, J. Bankert, W. A. Barkhouse, Jeffrey D. Barr, L. Felipe Barrientos, Aaron J. Barth, James G. Bartlett, A. C. Becker, Jacek Becla, Timothy C. Beers, Joseph P. Bernstein, Rahul Biswas, Michael R. Blanton, J. S. Bloom, John J. Bochanski, Pat Boeshaar, K. D. Borne, Maruša Bradač, W. N. Brandt, Carrie Bridge, Michael E. Brown, Róbert Brunner, James S. Bullock, Adam J. Burgasser, James H. Burge, D. L. Burke, Phillip A. Cargile, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, G. Chartas, Steven R. Chesley, You‐Hua Chu, D. Cinabro, Mark W. Claire, Charles F. Claver, Douglas Clowe, Andrew J. Connolly, Kem H. Cook, Jeff Cooke, Asantha Cooray, Kevin R. Covey, Christopher S. Culliton, Roelof de Jong, W. H. de Vries, Victor P. Debattista, Francisco Delgado, Ian Dell’Antonio, Saurav Dhital, R. Di Stefano, Mark Dickinson, Benjamin Dilday, S. G. Djorgovski, Gregory Dobler, C. Donalek, Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann, Josef Ďurech, Á. Elíasdóttir, Michael Eracleous, L. Eyer, E. Falco, Xiaohui Fan, C. D. Fassnacht, Henry C. Ferguson, Y. R. Fernández, Brian D. Fields, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Eduardo E. Figueroa, D. B. Fox, Harold Francke, James S. Frank, Josh Frieman, S. Fromenteau, Muhammad Furqan, Gaspar Galaz, A. Gal‐Yam, P. Garnavich, Eric Gawiser, John C. Geary, Perry M. Gee, R. R. Gibson, K. Gilmore, E. Grace, Richard F. Green, William J. Gressler, Carl J. Grillmair, Salman Habib, J. S. Haggerty, M. Hamuy, Alan W. Harris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Alan Heavens, Leslie Hebb, Todd J. Henry, Edward A. Hileman, Eric J. Hilton, Keri Hoadley, J. B. Holberg, Matt Holman, Steve B. Howell, L. Infante, Željko Ivezić, Suzanne Jacoby, Bhuvnesh Jain, R, Jedicke, M. James Jee, J. G. Jernigan, Saurabh W. Jha, Kathryn V. Johnston, Lynne Jones, Mario Jurić, M. Kaasalainen, Styliani, Kafka, S. M. Kahn, Nathan A. Kaib, Jason S. Kalirai, J. Kantor, M. M. Kasliwal, Charles R. Keeton, R. Keßler, Zoran Knežević, Adam F. Kowalski, Victor L. Krabbendam, K. Simon Krughoff, S. R. Kulkarni, S. Kuhlman, Mark Lacy, Sébastien Lépine, Ming Liang, A. Y. Lien, P. Lira, Knox S. Long, Suzanne Lorenz, Jennifer M. Lotz, Robert H. Lupton, J. H. Lutz, Lucas M. Macri, A. Mahabal, Rachel Mandelbaum, Philip J. Marshall, M. May, P. McGehee, Brian T. Meadows, A. Meert, Andrea Milani, Christopher J. Miller, Michelle Miller, David Mills, D. Minniti, D. G. Monet, Anjum S. Mukadam, Ehud Nakar, Douglas R. Neill, Jeffrey A. Newman, S. Nikolaev, M. Nordby, P. O’Connor, Masamune Oguri, J. Oliver, Scot S. Olivier, Julia K. Olsen, Knut Olsen, Edward W. Olszewski, Hakeem M. Oluseyi, Nelson Padilla, A. H. Parker, Joshua Pepper, J. R. Peterson, C. E. Petry, Philip A. Pinto, James Pizagno, Bogdan Popescu, A. Prša, Veljko Radcka, M. Jordan Raddick, Andrew Rasmussen, A. Rau, Jeonghee Rho, James E. Rhoads, Gordon T. Richards, Stephen T. Ridgway, Brant Robertson, Rok Roškar, Abhijit Saha, Ata Sarajedini, Evan Scannapieco, T. Schalk, Rafe Schindler, Samuel Schmidt, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Germán Schumacher, Ryan Scranton, Jacques Sebag, Lynn G. Seppala, Ohad Shemmer, Joshua D. Simon, M. Sivertz, H. A. Smith, J. A. Smith, Nathan Smith, Anna H. Spitz, Adam Stanford, Keivan G. Stassun, Jay Strader, Michael A. Strauss, C. W. Stubbs, Donald W. Sweeney, Alexander S. Szalay, Paula Szkody, Masahiro Takada, Paul Thorman, David E. Trilling, Virginia Trimble, Anthony Tyson, Richard Berg, Daniel Vanden Berk, Jake Vanderplas, Licia Verde, B. Vršnak, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, B. D. Wandelt, Sheng Wang, Yun Wang, Michael Warner, Risa H. Wechsler, Andrew A. West, Oliver Wiecha, Benjamin F. Williams, Beth Willman, David Wittman, Sidney C. Wolff, W. M. Wood‐Vasey, P. R. Woźniak, Patrick Young, Andrew R. Zentner, Hu Zhan,

Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over 20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.