Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aps..apr.e7007g&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 22-26, 2006, abstract #E7.007
Physics
Scientific paper
The prime goal of LSST is a precision measure of the nature of dark energy though a suite of techniques using a homogeneous imaging dataset. Central of these is weak lens shear of galaxy shapes to z=3 by mass at z<3, giving a unique probe of dark energy. This will be done through a combination of deep-wide multi-band imaging data over 20,000 sq.deg. in a weak lensing survey of unprecedented sensitivity, volume and quality. LSST will be a large, wide-field groundbased telescope designed to obtain sequential images of the entire visible sky every few nights. The optical design involves a 3-mirror system with an 8.4 m primary, which feeds three refractive correcting elements inside a camera, providing a 10 square degree field of view sampled by a 3 Gpixel focal plane array. The total effective system throughput, Aφ = 318 m 2 deg2, is nearly two orders of magnitude larger than that of any existing facility. The survey will yield contiguous overlapping imaging of 20,000 -- 23,000 square degrees of sky in 6 optical bands covering the wavelength regime 350--1100 nm.
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