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Maximizing Science in the Era of LSST: A Community-Based Study of Needed US Capabilities

Lead Author: 
Najita, Joan
Other Authors/Credits: 
Willman, Beth; Finkbeiner, Douglas P.; Foley, Ryan J.; Hawley, Suzanne; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Rudnick, Gregory; Simon, Joshua D.; Trilling, David; Street, Rachel; Bolton, Adam; Angus, Ruth; Bell, Eric F.; Buzasi, Derek; Ciardi, David; Davenport, James R. A.; Dawson, Will; Dickinson, Mark; Drlica-...
Publication Date: 
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Reports & White Papers
Data Management, Science, AGN, Dark Energy, Galaxies, Large-Scale Structure, Photometric redshifts, Solar System, Stars, MW, Local Volume, Statistics and Informatics, Strong Lensing, Supernovae, Transients, Variable Stars, Weak Lensing
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A report on the Kavli Futures Symposium organized by NOAO and LSST
Journal or Publication name: 
Maximizing Science in the Era of LSST: A Community-Based Study of Needed US Capabilities
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no
Abstract: 
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a discovery machine for the astronomy and physics communities, revealing astrophysical phenomena from the Solar System to the outer reaches of the observable Universe. While many discoveries will be made using LSST data alone, taking full...

Atmospheric point spread function interpolation for weak lensing in short exposure imaging data

Lead Author: 
Chang, Chiway et al.
Other Authors/Credits: 
Marshall, P. J.; Jernigan, J. G.; Peterson, J. R.; Kahn, S. M.; Gull, S. F.; AlSayyad, Y.; Ahmad, Z.; Bankert, J.; Bard, D.; Connolly, A.; Gibson, R. R.; Gilmore, K.; Grace, E.; Hannel, M.; Hodge, M. A.; Jones, L.; Krughoff, S.; Lorenz, S.; Marshall, S.; Meert, A.; Nagarajan, S.; Peng, E.;...
Publication Date: 
Friday, June 12, 2015
Journal Articles
Science, Weak Lensing
methods data analysis cosmology observation
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Journal or Publication name: 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Citable: 
no
Abstract: 
A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time (≃15 s) proposed, the spatial variation of the point spread function (PSF) shapes may be...

Impact of Atmospheric Chromatic Effects on Weak Lensing Measurements

Lead Author: 
Meyers, Joshua E. and Burchat, Patricia R.
Publication Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2014
Journal Articles
Science, Weak Lensing
cosmology
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Citable: 
no
Abstract: 
Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We use analytic and computational techniques to study the impact on shape...

Effect of Measurement Errors on Predicted Cosmological Constraints from Shear Peak Statistics with Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Lead Author: 
Bard, Deborah et al.
Other Authors/Credits: 
Kratochvil, J. M.; Chang, C.; May, M.; Kahn, S. M.; AlSayyad, Y.; Ahmad, Z.; Bankert, J.; Connolly, A.; Gibson, R. R.; Gilmore, K.; Grace, E.; Haiman, Z.; Hannel, M.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Jernigan, J. G.; Jones, L.; Krughoff, S.; Lorenz, S.; Marshall, S.; Meert, A.; Nagarajan, S.; Peng, E.;...
Publication Date: 
Friday, August 16, 2013
Science, Weak Lensing, Image Simulation
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Journal or Publication name: 
The Astrophysical Journal
Citable: 
no
Abstract: 
We study the effect of galaxy shape measurement errors on predicted cosmological constraints from the statistics of shear peak counts with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). We use the LSST Image Simulator in combination with cosmological N-body simulations to model realistic shear maps...

The effective number density of galaxies for weak lensing measurements in the LSST project

Lead Author: 
Chang, Chiway et al.
Other Authors/Credits: 
Jarvis, M.; Jain, B.; Kahn, S. M.; Kirkby, D.; Connolly, A.; Krughoff, S.; Peng, E.-H.; Peterson, J. R.
Publication Date: 
Friday, July 19, 2013
Journal Articles
Galaxies, Weak Lensing
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Journal or Publication name: 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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no
Abstract: 
Future weak lensing surveys potentially hold the highest statistical power for constraining cosmological parameters compared to other cosmological probes. The statistical power of a weak lensing survey is determined by the sky coverage, the inverse of the noise in shear measurements and the galaxy...

Spurious shear in weak lensing with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Lead Author: 
Chang, Chiway et al.
Other Authors/Credits: 
Kahn, S. M.; Jernigan, J. G.; Peterson, J. R.; AlSayyad, Y.; Ahmad, Z.; Bankert, J.; Bard, D.; Connolly, A.; Gibson, R. R.; Gilmore, K.; Grace, E.; Hannel, M.; Hodge, M. A.; Jee, M. J.; Jones, L.; Krughoff, S.; Lorenz, S.; Marshall, P. J.; Marshall, S.; Meert, A.; Nagarajan, S.; Peng, E.; Rasmussen...
Publication Date: 
Monday, November 19, 2012
Journal Articles
Weak Lensing
cosmology
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Journal or Publication name: 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Citable: 
no
Abstract: 
The complete 10-yr survey from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will image ∼20 000 deg2 of the sky in six filter bands every few nights, bringing the final survey depth to r ∼ 27.5, with over four billion well-measured galaxies. To take full advantage of this unprecedented statistical...

LSST Science Book

Lead Author: 
LSST Science Collaboration
Other Authors/Credits: 
Abell, Paul A.; Allison, Julius; Anderson, Scott F.; Andrew, John R.; Angel, J. Roger P.; Armus, Lee; Arnett, David; Asztalos, S. J.; Axelrod, Tim S.; Bailey, Stephen; Ballantyne, D. R.; Bankert, Justin R.; Barkhouse, Wayne A.; Barr, Jeffrey D.; Barrientos, L. Felipe; Barth, Aaron J.; Bartlett,...
Publication Date: 
Monday, January 12, 2009
Foundation Documents
Science, AGN, Dark Energy, Galaxies, Large-Scale Structure, Photometric redshifts, Solar System, Stars, MW, Local Volume, Statistics and Informatics, Strong Lensing, Supernovae, Transients, Variable Stars, Weak Lensing
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Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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