Cosmology with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: an overview

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作者
Zhan, Hu [1 ]
Tyson, J. Anthony [2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Key Lab Space Astron & Technol, A20 Datun Rd, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA
关键词
dark energy; cosmology; photometric surveys; weak gravitational lensing; large-scale structure; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; BARYON ACOUSTIC-OSCILLATIONS; MATTER POWER SPECTRUM; COLD DARK-MATTER; NONLINEAR STRUCTURE FORMATION; PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT ERRORS; X-RAY MEASUREMENTS; DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; IA SUPERNOVAE; GALAXY BIAS;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6633/aab1bd
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a novel three-mirror design achieving a seeing-limited 9.6 deg(2) field of view, and a 3.2 gigapixel camera, the LSST has the deep-wide-fast imaging capability necessary to carry out an 18 000 deg(2) survey in six passbands (ugrizy) to a coadded depth of r similar to 27.5 over 10 years using 90% of its observational time. The remaining 10% of the time will be devoted to considerably deeper and faster time-domain observations and smaller surveys. In total, each patch of the sky in the main survey will receive 800 visits allocated across the six passbands with 30 s exposure visits. The huge volume of high-quality LSST data will provide a wide range of science opportunities and, in particular, open a new era of precision cosmology with unprecedented statistical power and tight control of systematic errors. In this review, we give a brief account of the LSST cosmology program with an emphasis on dark energy investigations. The LSST will address dark energy physics and cosmology in general by exploiting diverse precision probes including large-scale structure, weak lensing, type Ia supernovae, galaxy clusters, and strong lensing. Combined with the cosmic microwave background data, these probes form interlocking tests on the cosmological model and the nature of dark energy in the presence of various systematics. The LSST data products will be made available to the US and Chilean scientific communities and to international partners with no proprietary period. Close collaborations with contemporaneous imaging and spectroscopy surveys observing at a variety of wavelengths, resolutions, depths, and timescales will be a vital part of the LSST science program, which will not only enhance specific studies but, more importantly, also allow a more complete understanding of the Universe through different windows.
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