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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

(2009)

Authors:

Z Ivezic, JA Tyson, B Abel, E Acosta, R Allsman, Y AlSayyad, SF Anderson, J Andrew, R Angel, G Angeli, R Ansari, P Antilogus, KT Arndt, P Astier, E Aubourg, T Axelrod, DJ Bard, JD Barr, A Barrau, JG Bartlett, BJ Bauman, S Beaumont, AC Becker, J Becla, C Beldica, S Bellavia, G Blanc, RD Blandford, JS Bloom, J Bogart, K Borne, JF Bosch, D Boutigny, WN Brandt, ME Brown, JS Bullock, P Burchat, DL Burke, G Cagnoli, D Calabrese, S Chandrasekharan, S Chesley, EC Cheu, J Chiang, CF Claver, AJ Connolly, KH Cook, A Cooray, KR Covey, C Cribbs, W Cui, R Cutri, G Daubard, G Daues, F Delgado, S Digel, P Doherty, R Dubois, GP Dubois-Felsmann, J Durech, M Eracleous, H Ferguson, J Frank, M Freemon, E Gangler, E Gawiser, JC Geary, P Gee, M Geha, RR Gibson, DK Gilmore, T Glanzman, I Goodenow, WJ Gressler, P Gris, A Guyonnet, PA Hascall, J Haupt, F Hernandez, C Hogan, D Huang, ME Huffer, WR Innes, SH Jacoby, B Jain, J Jee, JG Jernigan, D Jevremovic, K Johns, RL Jones, C Juramy-Gilles, M Juric, SM Kahn, JS Kalirai, N Kallivayalil, B Kalmbach, JP Kantor, MM Kasliwal, R Kessler, D Kirkby, L Knox, I Kotov, VL Krabbendam, S Krughoff, P Kubanek, J Kuczewski, S Kulkarni, R Lambert, LL Guillou, D Levine, M Liang, K-T Lim, C Lintott, RH Lupton, A Mahabal, P Marshall, S Marshall, M May, R McKercher, M Migliore, M Miller, DJ Mills, DG Monet, M Moniez, DR Neill, J-Y Nief, A Nomerotski, M Nordby, P O'Connor, J Oliver, SS Olivier, K Olsen, S Ortiz, RE Owen, R Pain, JR Peterson, CE Petry, F Pierfederici, S Pietrowicz, R Pike, PA Pinto, R Plante, S Plate, PA Price, M Prouza, V Radeka, J Rajagopal, A Rasmussen, N Regnault, ST Ridgway, S Ritz, W Rosing, C Roucelle, MR Rumore, S Russo, A Saha, B Sassolas, TL Schalk, RH Schindler, DP Schneider, G Schumacher, J Sebag, GH Sembroski, LG Seppala, I Shipsey, N Silvestri, JA Smith, RC Smith, MA Strauss, CW Stubbs, D Sweeney, A Szalay, P Takacs, JJ Thaler, RV Berg, DV Berk, K Vetter, F Virieux, B Xin, L Walkowicz, CW Walter, DL Wang, M Warner, B Willman, D Wittman, SC Wolff, WM Wood-Vasey, P Yoachim, H Zhan, FTLSST Collaboration

Abstract:

(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 single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain multiple images covering the sky visible from Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. This system can image about 10,000 square degrees of sky in three clear nights using pairs of 15-second exposures twice per night, with typical 5$\sigma$ depth for point sources of $r\sim24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta<+34.5^\circ$, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, $ugrizy$, covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18,000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27.5$. The remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products, including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion objects, available to the public and scientists around the world.

J/ψ and ψ(2S) Radiative Transitions to ηc

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 102:1 (2009) ARTN 011801

Authors:

RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, J Libby, A Powell, G Wilkinson, KM Ecklund, W Love, V Savinov, A Lopez, H Mendez, J Ramirez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, M Anderson, JP Cummings, I Danko, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, S Nisar, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, RA Briere, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krueger, D Mohapatra, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, R Patel, J Yelton, P Rubin, BI Eisenstein, I Karliner, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss

Charmonium decays to γπ0, γη, and γη′

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 79:11 (2009) ARTN 111101

Authors:

TK Pedlar, J Xavier, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, T Klein, R Poling, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, R Mountain, K Randrianarivony, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, MJ Smith, P Zhou, J Zhu, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, EJ White, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, R Ehrlich, L Fields, RS Galik, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krueger, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, C Tarbert, D Besson

Ds+ exclusive hadronic decays involving ω

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 80:5 (2009) ARTN 051102

Authors:

JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, R Mountain, K Randrianarivony, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, A Lincoln, MJ Smith, P Zhou, J Zhu, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, EJ White, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krueger, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, CM Tarbert, D Besson, TK Pedlar, J Xavier, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, T Klein, R Poling, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, S Brisbane, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, H Mendez

Dalitz plot analysis of Ds+→K+K-π+

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 79:7 (2009) ARTN 072008

Authors:

RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, J Xavier, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, BJY Tan, A Tomaradze, J Libby, L Martin, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, R Mountain, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, MJ Smith, P Zhou, J Zhu, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, AN Robichaud, G Tatishvili, EJ White, RA Briere, H Vogel, PUE Onyisi, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krueger, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss