Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science

Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration; Megan E. Schwamb; Mario Juric; Bryce T Bolin; Luke Dones; Sarah Greenstreet; Henry H Hsieh; Laura Inno; R   Lynne Jones; Michael S. P. Kelley; Matthew M. Knight; William T Reach; Tom Seccull; Colin Snodgrass; David E Trilling

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Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science

Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, Megan E. Schwamb^*, Mario Juric, Bryce T Bolin, Luke Dones, Sarah Greenstreet, Henry H Hsieh, Laura Inno, R Lynne Jones, Michael S. P. Kelley, Matthew M. Knight, William T Reach, Tom Seccull, Colin Snodgrass, David E Trilling

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover ~6 million solar system planetesimals, providing in total over a billion photometric and astrometric measurements in 6 broad-band filters. Rubin Observatory's automated data reduction pipelines will employ difference imaging; templates representing the static sky will be subtracted from the nightly LSST observations in order to identify transient sources, including solar system moving objects. These templates are expected to be generated by coadding high quality images of the same pointing from the previous year's survey observations. The first year of LSST operations will require a different method for generating templates, if solar system discoveries are to be reported daily like Year 2 and beyond. We make recommendations for template production in the LSST's first year and present the opportunities for solar system small body transient and time domain science enhanced by this change.

Original language	English
Article number	143
Journal	Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
Volume	5
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac090f
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2021

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Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, Schwamb, M. E., Juric, M., Bolin, B. T., Dones, L., Greenstreet, S., Hsieh, H. H., Inno, L., Lynne Jones, R., Kelley, M. S. P., Knight, M. M., Reach, W. T., Seccull, T., Snodgrass, C., & Trilling, D. E. (2021). Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 5(6), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac090f

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Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, Schwamb, ME, Juric, M, Bolin, BT, Dones, L, Greenstreet, S, Hsieh, HH, Inno, L, Lynne Jones, R, Kelley, MSP, Knight, MM, Reach, WT, Seccull, T, Snodgrass, C & Trilling, DE 2021, 'Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science', Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 5, no. 6, 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac090f

Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science. / Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration; Schwamb, Megan E.; Juric, Mario et al.
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Vera C Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, Schwamb ME, Juric M, Bolin BT, Dones L, Greenstreet S et al. Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 2021 Jun 1;5(6):143. doi: 10.3847/2515-5172/ac090f

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