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De-Trending Time Series for Astronomical Variability Surveys
Dae-Won Kim, Pavlos Protopapas, Charles Alcock +2
We present a de-trending algorithm for the removal of trends in time series. Trends in time series could be caused by various systematic and random noise sources such as cloud pass…
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…
Detectability of Occultation of Stars by Objects in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
T. C. Nihei, M. J. Lehner, F. B. Bianco +3
The serendipitous detection of stellar occultations by Outer Solar System objects is a powerful method for ascertaining the small end ( km) of the size distribution…
Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project
W. P. Chen, C. Alcock, T. Axelrod +24
The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4…