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PSTN-056: Survey Cadence Optimization Committee's Phase 3 Recommendations

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  1. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware; Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware; Data Science Institute, University of Delaware
  3. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington
  4. Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello Fernandez; Millennium Institute of Astrophysics
  5. Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  6. Department of Physics, California Polytechnic State University
  7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
  8. McWilliams Center for Cosmology & Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
  9. Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
  10. NSF NOIRLab
  11. Department of Physics, University of Oxford
  12. Center for Data Intensive and Time Domain Astronomy, Michigan State University
  13. Las Cumbres Observatory
  14. Planetary Science Institute
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We present the final planned comprehensive recommendation for Rubin Observatory the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) survey strategy ahead of the start of LSST. This recommendation is the product of a many-years-long iterative process where community recommendations to maximize the scientific impact of LSST across domains of astrophysics were reviewed, synthesized, aggregated, and merged to define the overall plan for 10 years of LSST observations. The current recommendation builds on Phase 1 (PSTN-053) and Phase 2 recommendations (PSTN-055) and, together, they define a 10-year plan for observing. Here we answer questions left open in PSTN-055, refine additional survey details, and describe the scope of future activities of the SCOC.

Research Organization:
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
2585402
Report Number(s):
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Science Technical Note PSTN-056
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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