Artículo
Testing LSST dither strategies for Survey Uniformity and Large-Scale Structure Systematics
Awan, Humna; Gawiser, Eric; Kurczynski, Peter; Lynne Jones, R.; Zhan, Hu; Padilla, Nelson David
; Muñoz Arancibia, Alejandra M.; Orsi, Alvaro; Cora, Sofia Alejandra
; Yoachim, Peter
Fecha de publicación:
09/2016
Editorial:
IOP Publishing
Revista:
Astrophysical Journal
ISSN:
0004-637X
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will survey the southern sky from 2022{2032 with unprecedented detail. Since the observing strategy can lead to artifacts in the data, we investigate the eects of telescope-pointing osets (called dithers) on the r-band coadded 5 depth yielded after the 10-year survey. We analyze this survey depth for several geometric patterns of dithers (e.g.,random, hexagonal lattice, spiral) with amplitude as large as the radius of the LSST eld-of-view, implemented on dierent timescales (per season, per night, per visit). Our results illustrate that per night and per visit dither assignments are more eective than per season. Also, we find that some dither geometries (e.g., hexagonal lattice) are particularly sensitive to the timescale on whichthe dithers are implemented, while others like random dithers perform well on all timescales. We then model the propagation of depth variations to articial uctuations in galaxy counts, which are a systematic for large-scale structure studies. We calculate the bias in galaxy counts caused by the observing strategy, accounting for photometric calibration uncertainties, dust extinction, and magnitude cuts; uncertainties in this bias limit our ability to account for structure induced by the observing strategy. We nd that after 10 years of the LSST survey, the best dither strategies lead to uncertainties in this bias smaller than the minimum statistical floor for a galaxy catalog as deep asr<27.5. A few of these strategies bring the uncertainties close to the statistical floor for r<25.7 after only one year of survey.
Palabras clave:
Galaxies
,
Surveys
,
Dark Energy
,
Large Scale Structure of Universe
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Awan, Humna; Gawiser, Eric; Kurczynski, Peter; Lynne Jones, R.; Zhan, Hu; et al.; Testing LSST dither strategies for Survey Uniformity and Large-Scale Structure Systematics; IOP Publishing; Astrophysical Journal; 819; 9-2016; 50-66
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