Solar System Science with LSST |
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Authors: | R L Jones S R Chesley A J Connolly A W Harris Z Ivezic Z Knezevic J Kubica A Milani D E Trilling |
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Institution: | 1. University of Washington, Washington, USA 2. JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, USA 3. SSI, Princeton, NJ, USA 4. AO Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 5. Google, Mountainview, CA, USA 6. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 7. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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Abstract: | The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide a unique tool to study moving objects throughout the solar system, creating massive catalogs of Near Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids, Trojans, TransNeptunian Objects (TNOs), comets and planetary satellites with well-measured orbits and high quality, multi-color photometry accurate to 0.005 magnitudes for the brightest objects. In the baseline LSST observing plan, back-to-back 15-second images will reach a limiting magnitude as faint as r = 24.7 in each 9.6 square degree image, twice per night; a total of approximately 20,000 square degrees of the sky will be imaged in multiple filters, with revisits about every 3 nights over several months of each year. |
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