Simulating the LSST system

A. J. Connolly; John Peterson; J. Garrett Jernigan; Robert Abel; Justin Bankert; Chihway Chang; Charles F. Claver; Robert Gibson; David K. Gilmore; Emily Grace; R. Lynne Jones; Zeljko Ivezic; James Jee; Mario Juric; Steven M. Kahn; Victor L. Krabbendam; Simon Krughoff; Suzanne Lorenz; James Pizagno; Andrew Rasmussen; Nathan Todd; J. Anthony Tyson; Mallory Young

doi:10.1117/12.857819

Simulating the LSST system

A. J. Connolly, John Peterson, J. Garrett Jernigan, Robert Abel, Justin Bankert, Chihway Chang, Charles F. Claver, Robert Gibson, David K. Gilmore, Emily Grace, R. Lynne Jones, Zeljko Ivezic, James Jee, Mario Juric, Steven M. Kahn, Victor L. Krabbendam, Simon Krughoff, Suzanne Lorenz, James Pizagno, Andrew RasmussenNathan Todd, J. Anthony Tyson, Mallory Young

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Abstract

Extracting science from the LSST data stream requires a detailed knowledge of the properties of the LSST catalogs and images (from their detection limits to the accuracy of the calibration to how well galaxy shapes can be characterized). These properties will depend on many of the LSST components including the design of the telescope, the conditions under which the data are taken and the overall survey strategy. To understand how these components impact the nature of the LSST data the simulations group is developing a framework for high fidelity simulations that scale to the volume of data expected from the LSST. This framework comprises galaxy, stellar and solar system catalogs designed to match the depths and properties of the LSST (to r=28), transient and moving sources, and image simulations that ray-trace the photons from above the atmosphere through the optics and to the camera. We describe here the state of the current simulation framework and its computational challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857819
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 2010 Jun 27 → 2010 Jul 1

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7738
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	10/6/27 → 10/7/1

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Connolly, A. J., Peterson, J., Jernigan, J. G., Abel, R., Bankert, J., Chang, C., Claver, C. F., Gibson, R., Gilmore, D. K., Grace, E., Jones, R. L., Ivezic, Z., Jee, J., Juric, M., Kahn, S. M., Krabbendam, V. L., Krughoff, S., Lorenz, S., Pizagno, J., ... Young, M. (2010). Simulating the LSST system. In Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV [77381O] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7738). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857819

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