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优化暗能量科学的LSST观测策略:DESC对宽-快-深巡天的建议

Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey

Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan, Nicolas Regnault, Philippe Gris, Rachel Mandelbaum, Eric Gawiser, Husni Almoubayyed, Christian N. Setzer, Simon… 展开作者

Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan, Nicolas Regnault, Philippe Gris, Rachel Mandelbaum, Eric Gawiser, Husni Almoubayyed, Christian N. Setzer, Simon Huber, Melissa L. Graham, Renée Hložek, Rahul Biswas, Tim Eifler, Daniel Rothchild, Tarek Allam, Jonathan Blazek, Chihway Chang, Thomas Collett, Ariel Goobar, Isobel M. Hook, Mike Jarvis, Saurabh W. Jha, Alex G. Kim, Phil Marshall, Jason D. McEwen, Marc Moniez, Jeffrey A. Newman, Hiranya V. Peiris, Tanja Petrushevska, Jason Rhodes, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Anže Slosar, Sherry H. Suyu, J. Anthony Tyson, Peter Yoachim

摘要:

宇宙学是LSST的四大科学支柱之一,它有望改变我们对暗能量和暗物质的理解。LSST暗能量科学合作组织(DESC)的任务是从LSST数据中推导出宇宙学参数的约束条件。LSST的每一个宇宙学探测都受到观测策略选择的严重影响。本白皮书由LSST DESC观测策略工作组(OSTF)撰写,该工作组代表了整个合作,旨在就观测策略提出建议,这些建议将有利于LSST的所有宇宙学分析。它还附有DESC DDF(Deep Drilling Fields)白皮书(Scolnic等人)。我们使用各种度量来理解观测策略对测量弱透镜、大尺度结构、星团、光度红移、超新星、强透镜和千新星的影响。为了减少系统的不确定性,我们的结论是,目前的基线观测策略需要显着修改,以产生最好的宇宙学约束。我们提供了一些关键建议:移动WFD(宽-快-深)足迹以避免高度灭绝的区域,在不同的过滤器中进行访问对,将2x 15秒快照改为单次曝光以提高效率,专注于减少观测之间的长间隔(>15天)的策略,并在10年调查期间的几个间隔中优先考虑空间均匀性。

英文摘要:

Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) has been tasked with deriving constraints on cosmological parameters from LSST data. Each of the cosmological probes for LSST is heavily impacted by the choice of observing strategy. This white paper is written by the LSST DESC Observing Strategy Task Force (OSTF), which represents the entire collaboration, and aims to make recommendations on observing strategy that will benefit all cosmological analyses with LSST. It is accompanied by the DESC DDF (Deep Drilling Fields) white paper (Scolnic et al.). We use a variety of metrics to understand the effects of the observing strategy on measurements of weak lensing, large-scale structure, clusters, photometric redshifts, supernovae, strong lensing and kilonovae. In order to reduce systematic uncertainties, we conclude that the current baseline observing strategy needs to be significantly modified to result in the best possible cosmological constraints. We provide some key recommendations: moving the WFD (Wide-Fast-Deep) footprint to avoid regions of high extinction, taking visit pairs in different filters, changing the 2x15s snaps to a single exposure to improve efficiency, focusing on strategies that reduce long gaps (>15 days) between observations, and prioritizing spatial uniformity at several intervals during the 10-year survey.

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