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astro-ph.IM2022★ 13 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 77 cited

The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2

A. Drlica-Wagner, P. S. Ferguson, M. Adamów +121

We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival DECam data from the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 145 cited

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a pioneering process of community-focused experimental design

Federica B. Bianco, Željko Ivezić, R. Lynne Jones +43

Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed…

astro-ph.IM2019

Infrastructure and Strategies for Time Domain and MMA and Follow-Up

B. W. Miller, L. Allen, E. Bellm +28

Time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics are growing and important modes of observational astronomy that will help define astrophysics in the 2020s. Significant effort is being…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 26 cited

A Hybrid Algorithm for Period Analysis from Multi-band Data with Sparse and Irregular Sampling for Arbitrary Light Curve Shapes

Abhijit Saha, A. Katherina Vivas

Ongoing and future surveys with repeat imaging in multiple bands are producing (or will produce) time-spaced measurements of brightness, resulting in the identification of large nu…