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most citedLSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 145 cited

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a pioneering process of community-focused experimental design

Federica B. Bianco, Željko Ivezić, R. Lynne Jones +43

Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 14 cited

The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Science case and survey design

M. Lacy, S. A. Baum, C. J. Chandler +75

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is a synoptic, all-sky radio sky survey with a unique combination of high angular resolution (2.5"), sensitivity (a 1 goal of 70…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 19 cited

Active Galaxy Science in the LSST Deep-Drilling Fields: Footprints, Cadence Requirements, and Total-Depth Requirements

W. N. Brandt, Q. Ni, G. Yang +25

This white paper specifies the footprints, cadence requirements, and total-depth requirements needed to allow the most-successful AGN studies in the four currently selected LSST De…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 14 cited

Paving the way to simultaneous multi-wavelength astronomy

M. J. Middleton, P. Casella, P. Gandhi +49

Whilst astronomy as a science is historically founded on observations at optical wavelengths, studying the Universe in other bands has yielded remarkable discoveries, from pulsars…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 204 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Technical Overview

Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Kyle S. Dawson +36

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project (SDSS-RM) is a dedicated multi-object RM experiment that has spectroscopically monitored a sample of 849 broad-line quasa…