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

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Prompt Detection of Fast Optical Bursts with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Guillem Megias Homar, Joshua E. Meyers, Steven M. Kahn

The transient optical sky has remained largely unexplored on very short timescales. While there have been some experiments searching for optical transients from minutes to years, n…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 14 cited

Impact of Point Spread Function Higher Moments Error on Weak Gravitational Lensing II: A Comprehensive Study

Tianqing Zhang, Husni Almoubayyed, Rachel Mandelbaum +6

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling syst…

astro-ph.IM2021

Impact of Point Spread Function Higher Moments Error on Weak Gravitational Lensing

Tianqing Zhang, Rachel Mandelbaum, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for cosmology, while subject to challenges in quantifying subtle systematic biases. The Point Spread Function (PSF) can…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 16 cited

The HST See Change Program: I. Survey Design, Pipeline, and Supernova Discoveries

Brian Hayden, David Rubin, Kyle Boone +53

The See Change survey was designed to make cosmological measurements by efficiently discovering high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and improving cluster mass measureme…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

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★ 85 cited

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…