Science Opportunities with the LSST

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have a scientific impact on fields ranging from studies of asteroids in the Solar System to the nature of dark energy. The LSST has defined a series of Science Collaborations, semi-autonomous groups of scientists drawn from the astronomy and high-energy physics communities, which will lay the detailed groundwork to carry out scientific investigations once the LSST data begin to flow in 2013. These collaborations, which will be formed over the next year, will be working with the LSST team on various aspects of survey design, cadence and depth, software pipelines, and database design. They will take the lead in carrying out science investigations with early data from the LSST, to commission the system and ferret out subtle problems in the data. They will develop code and other analysis techniques to allow them to take full advantage of the data once it starts to flow, and will plan precursor or follow-up observations using other facilities needed to meet their scientific goals. The ten science collaborations are: Solar System Objects, Stellar Populations, Milky Way Structure, Transient Objects, Galaxy Studies, AGN, Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies/Baryon Oscillations, Supernovae, Weak Lensing, and Strong Lensing.

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