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Enabling Catalog Simulations of Transient and Variable Sources Based on LSST Cadence Strategies
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). University of Washington, USA.
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Number of Authors: 52020 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ISSN 0067-0049, E-ISSN 1538-4365, Vol. 247, no 2, article id 60Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project will conduct a 10 year multi-band survey starting in 2022. Observing strategies for this survey are being actively investigated, and the science capabilities can be best forecasted on the basis of simulated strategies from the LSST Operations Simulator (OpSim). OpSim simulates a stochastic realization of the sequence of LSST pointings over the survey duration, and is based on a model of the observatory (including telescope) and historical data of observational conditions. OpSim outputs contain a record of each simulated pointing of the survey along with a complete characterization of the pointing in terms of observing conditions, and some useful quantities derived from the characteristics of the pointing. Thus, each record can be efficiently used to derive the properties of observations of all astrophysical sources found in that pointing. However, in order to obtain the time series of observations (light curves) of a set of sources, it is often more convenient to compute all observations of an astrophysical source, and iterate over sources. In this document, we describe the open source python package OpSimSummary, which allows for a convenient reordering. The objectives of this package are to provide users with an Application Programming Interface for accessing all such observations and summarizing this information in the form of intermediate data products usable by third party software such as SNANA, thereby also bridging the gap between official LSST products and preexisting simulation codes.

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2020. Vol. 247, no 2, article id 60
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Astronomical methods, Sky surveys, Time domain astronomy, Type Ia supernovae, Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-181352DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab72f2ISI: 000523422200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85087203757OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-181352DiVA, id: diva2:1430841
Available from: 2020-05-18 Created: 2020-05-18 Last updated: 2022-11-08Bibliographically approved

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