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Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization
Melissa L. Graham, Robert A. Knop, Thomas Kennedy +41
This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco…
An information-based metric for observing strategy optimization, demonstrated in the context of photometric redshifts with applications to cosmology
Alex I. Malz, François Lanusse, John Franklin Crenshaw +1
The observing strategy of a galaxy survey influences the degree to which its resulting data can be used to accomplish any science goal. LSST is thus seeking metrics of observing st…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Science Platforms for Resolved Stellar Populations in the Next Decade
Knut A. G. Olsen, Melissa Graham, Dara Norman +2
Over the past decade, research in resolved stellar populations has made great strides in exploring the nature of dark matter, in unraveling the star formation, chemical enrichment,…
LSST Narrowband Filters
Peter Yoachim, Melissa Graham, Steven Bet +5
In this white paper, we present the scientific cases for adding narrowband optical filters to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). LSST is currently planning to observe the…
Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey
Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan +33
Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collabo…
Presto-Color: A Photometric Survey Cadence for Explosive Physics & Fast Transients
Federica B. Bianco, Maria R. Drout, Melissa L. Graham +6
We identify minimal observing cadence requirements that enable photometric astronomical surveys to detect and recognize fast and explosive transients and fast transient features. O…