3 papers
astro-ph.CO2021
DESC DC2 Data Release Note
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, Robert Armstrong +54
In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created…
astro-ph.IM2020
The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, David Alonso +77
We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…
astro-ph.CO2019
CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST
Danila Korytov, Andrew Hearin, Eve Kovacs +27
This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the…