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most citedPredictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

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astro-ph.IM2026★ 14 cited

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

Vera C Rubin Observatory Team, Tatiana Acero Cuellar, Emily Acosta +325

We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detecti…

astro-ph.EP2025

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Neptune Trojans

Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Pedro H. Bernardinelli +15

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), beginning full operations in late 2025, will dramatically transform solar system science by vastly e…

astro-ph.EP2025

Rotational Light-curve Recovery and Predictions of the LSST Yield of Hildas

Alexander J. Fleming, Jacob A. Kurlander, Dmitrii E. Vavilov +4

The Hilda population occupies the stable 3:2 mean-motion resonance of Jupiter and provides a window into solar system evolution, including collisional processes. The National Scien…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 39 cited

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Jacob A. Kurlander, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Megan E. Schwamb +18

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new 8m-class survey facility presently being commissioned in Chile, expected to begin the 10yr-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Stephanie R. Merritt, Grigori Fedorets, Megan E. Schwamb +20

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to revolutionize solar system astronomy. Unprecedented in scale, this ten-year wide…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

PhotoD with LSST: Stellar Photometric Distances Out to the Edge of the Galaxy

Lovro Palaversa, Željko Ivezić, Neven Caplar +14

As demonstrated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Pan-STARRS, and most recently with Gaia data, broadband near-UV to near-IR stellar photometry can be used to estimate dist…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Using LSDB to enable large-scale catalog distribution, cross-matching, and analytics

Neven Caplar, Wilson Beebe, Doug Branton +9

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate an unprecedented volume of data, including approximately 60 petabytes of raw data and around 30 trillion observed sources, posing a sign…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1

Jacob A. Kurlander, Matthew J. Holman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli +3

To prepare for the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we develop methods for quantifying the selection function of a wide-field survey as a function of all six orbital param…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). VII. The Strengths of Three Superfast Rotating Main-belt Asteroids from a Preliminary Search of DEEP Data

Ryder Strauss, Andrew McNeill, David E. Trilling +19

Superfast rotators (SFRs) are small solar system objects that rotate faster than generally possible for a cohesionless rubble pile. Their rotational characteristics allow us to mak…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) II. Observational Strategy and Design

Chadwick A. Trujillo, Cesar Fuentes, David W. Gerdes +19

We present the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) survey strategy including observing cadence for orbit determination, exposure times, field pointings and filter choices. Th…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) VI: first multi-year observations of trans-Neptunian objects

Hayden Smotherman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Stephen K. N. Portillo +25

We present the first set of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) observed on multiple nights in data taken from the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). Of these 110 TNOs, 105 do n…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) III: Survey characterization and simulation methods

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Hayden Smotherman, Zachary Langford +24

We present a detailed study of the observational biases of the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project's (DEEP) B1 data release and survey simulation software that enables direct statis…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP): I. Survey description, science questions, and technical demonstration

David E. Trilling, David W. Gerdes, Mario Juric +19

We present here the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP), a three year NOAO/NOIRLab Survey that was allocated 46.5 nights to discover and measure the properties of thousands o…

astro-ph.EP2023

Jupiter's Metastable Companions

Sarah Greenstreet, Brett Gladman, Mario Juric

Jovian co-orbitals share Jupiter's orbit in 1:1 mean motion resonance. This includes 10,000 so-called Trojan asteroids surrounding the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrange po…