Cadence optimization white papers (2018)

The original call for white papers on LSST cadence optimization: Document 28382.

White papers

Title	Authors	Link
A Big Sky Approach to Cadence Diplomacy	Knut Olsen (SMWLV), Marcella Di Criscienzo (SMWLV, TVS), R. Lynne Jones (Solar System), Megan E. Schwamb (Solar System), Hsing Wen “Edward” Lin (Solar System), Humna Awan (DESC), Phil Marshall (DESC, Strong Lensing), Eric Gawiser (Galaxies, DESC), Adam Bolton, Daniel Eisenstein	Docushare
A Cadence to Reduce Aliasing in LSST	Keaton J. Bell, Kelly M. Hambleton, Michael B. Lund and Róbert Szabó	Docushare
A Higher Cadence Subsurvey Located in the Galactic Plane	M.B. Lund, K.G. Stassun, J. Farihi, E. Agol, M. Rabus, A. Shporer, and K.J. Bell	Docushare
A Northern Ecliptic Survey for Solar System Science	Megan E. Schwamb, Kathryn Volk, Hsing Wen (Edward) Lin, Michael S. P. Kelley, Michele T. Bannister, Henry H. Hsieh, R. Lynne Jones, Michael Mommert, Colin Snodgrass, Darin Ragozzine, Steven R. Chesley, Scott S. Sheppard, Mario Jurić, Marc W. Buie	Docushare
A Smart and Colorful Cadence for the Wide-Fast Deep Survey	Suvi Gezari, (University of Maryland), Sjoert van Velzen (University of Maryland and NYU), Tiara Hung (University of California Santa Cruz), Brad Cenko (NASA/Goddard), and Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University)	Docushare
A strategy for LSST to unveil a population of kilonovae without gravitational-wave triggers	Igor Andreoni, Caltech; Shreya Anand, Caltech; Federica B. Bianco, NYU CUSP/CCPP NYU, University of Delaware; Brad Cenko, NASA-GSFC; Philip Cowperthwaite, Carnegie; Michael W. Coughlin, Caltech; Maria Drout, Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto; Danny Goldstein, Caltech; V. Zach Golkhou, University of Washington; Anna Ho, Caltech; David Kaplan, UW-Milwaukee; Kunal P. Mooley, Caltech; Tyler A. Pritchard, NYU; Mickael Rigault, CNRS; Leo P. Singer, NASA-GSFC	arXiv
Active Galaxy Science in the LSST Deep-Drilling Fields: Footprints, Cadence Requirements, and Total-Depth Requirements	W.N. Brandt (Penn State), Q. Ni (Penn State), G. Yang (Penn State), S.F. Anderson (Univ Washington), R.J. Assef (Univ Diego Portales), A.J. Barth (UC Irvine), F.E. Bauer (Católica), A. Bongiorno (Oss Ast Roma), C.-T. Chen (MSFC), D. De Cicco (Católica), S. Gezari (Univ Maryland), C.J. Grier (Penn State), P.B. Hall (York Univ), S.F. Hoenig (Univ Southampton), M. Lacy (NRAO), J. Li (Univ Illinois), B. Luo (Nanjing Univ), M. Paolillo (Univ Naples Fed II), B.M. Peterson (Ohio State), L.C. Popović (Ast Obs Belgrade), G.T. Richards (Drexel Univ), O. Shemmer (Univ N Texas), Y. Shen (Univ Illinois), M. Sun (USTC), J.D. Timlin (Penn State), J.R. You-Know-Who (Univ Connecticut), F. Vito (Católica), Z. Yu (Ohio State)	Docushare
Blazars and Fast Radio Bursts with LSST	C.M. Raiteri, M.I. Carnerero, B. Balmaverde, F. D’Ammando, C. Righi et al.	Docushare
Calibrating Milky Way Maps: An LSST Bright(ish) Star Survey	John E. Gizis	Docushare
Characterizing Variable Stars in a Single Night with LSST	Eric D. Feigelson, Frederica Bianco and Sara Bonito	Docushare
Continuous Cadence Acquisition of the LSST Deep Drilling Fields	Keaton J. Bell and J. J. Hermes	Docushare
Deep Drilling Fields for Solar System Science	David E. Trilling, Michele Bannister, Cesar Fuentes, David Gerdes, Michael Mommert, Megan E. Schwamb, Chad Trujillo	Docushare
Discovery of Strongly-lensed Gravitational Waves - Implications for the LSST Observing Strategy	Graham P. Smith, Andrew Robertson, Matteo Bianconi, and Mathilde Jauzac on behalf of the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration and the Gravitationally Lensed Gravitational Wave Hunters	Docushare
Enabling Cosmological Synergies between the LSST and WFIRST High Latitude Survey	Olivier Doré, Tim Eifler, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Chris Hirata, Mike Jarvis, Elisabeth Krause, Rachel Mandelbaum, Michael Troxel and the Cosmology with the WFIRST High Latitude Survey Science Investigation Team	Docushare
Enabling Deep All-Sky Searches of Outer Solar System Objects	Mario Jurić, R. Lynne Jones, J. Bryce Kalmbach, Peter Whidden, Dino Bektešević, Hayden Smotherman, Joachim Moeyens, Andrew J. Connolly, Wesley Fraser, David Gerdes, Megan E. Schwamb, David Trilling, and Michael Mommert	Docushare
Enhancing LSST Science with Euclid Synergy	Capak, J-C. Cuillandre, F. Bernardeau, F. Castander, R. Bowler, C. Chang, C. Grillmair, P. Gris, T. Eiffler, C. Hirata, I. Hook, B. Jain, K. Kuijken, M. Lochner, P. Oesch, S. Paltani, J. Rhodes, B. Robertson, D. Rubin, R. Scaramella, C. Scarlata, D. Scolnic, J. Silverman, S. Wachter, Y. Wang, The Tri-Agency Working Group	Docushare
Investigating the population of Galactic star formation regions and star clusters within a Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane	Loredana Prisinzan and Laura Magrini	Docushare
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope White Paper; The Case for Matching U-band on Deep Drilling Fields	B.W. Holwerda (University of Louisville), A. Baker (Rutgers University), S. Blyth (University of Cape Town), S. Kannappan (University of North Carolina), D. Obreschkov (ICRAR), S. Ravindranath (STSCI), E. Elson (University of Western Cape), M. Vaccari (University of Western Cape), S. Crawford (STSCI), M. Bershady (University of Wisconsin-Madison), N. Hathi (STSCI), N. Maddox (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich), Russ Taylor (University of Cape Town), Matt Jarvis (University of Oxford), Joanna Bridge (University of Louisville)	Docushare
Leveraging Differential Chromatic Refraction in LSST	Gordon Richards (Drexel), Christina Peters (Toronto), Bee Martin (Drexel), J. Bryce Kalmbach(UW), John Parejko (UW), Ian Sullivan (UW), Franz E. Bauer (PUC/SSI)	Docushare
LSST Cadence Optimization White Paper in Support of Observations of Unresolved Tidal Stellar Streams in Galaxies beyond the Local Group	Seppo Laine, David Martınez-Delgado, Ignacio Trujillo, Pierre-Alain Duc, Carl J. Grillmair, Carlos S. Frenk, David Hendel, Kathryn V. Johnston, J. Chris Mihos, John Moustakas, Rachael L. Beaton, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Johnny Greco, and Denis Erkal	Docushare
LSST Local Volume mini-survey	Eric F. Bell, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Denija Crnojević, Roelof S. de Jong, Richard D’Souza, Henry C. Ferguson, Nitya Kallivayalil, Sergey Koposov, Ting Li, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Antonela Monachesi, Annika Peter, R. Michael Rich, Ian U. Roederer, Laura Sales, Colin T. Slater, Adam Smercina, Elisa Toloba, Monica Valluri, Benjamin Williams	Docushare
LSST Observations of WFIRST Deep Fields	The WFIRST Deep Field Working Group, WFIRST Science Investigation Team Members, and Community Members: R. J. Foley, A. M. Koekemoer, D. N. Spergel, F. B. Bianco, P. Capak, L. Dai, O. Doré, G. G. Fazio, H. Ferguson, A. V. Filippenko, B. Frye, L. Galbany, E. Gawiser, C. Gronwall, N. P. Hathi, C. Hirata, R. Hounsell, S. W. Jha, A. G. Kim, P. L. Kelly, J. W. Kruk, S. Malhotra, K. S. Mandel, R. Margutti, D. Marrone, K. B. W. McQuinn, P. Melchior, L. Moustakas, J. A. Newman, J. E. G. Peek, S. Perlmutter, J. D. Rhodes, B. Robertson, D. Rubin, D. Scolnic, R. Somerville, R. Street, Y. Wang, D. J. Whalen, R. A. Windhorst, E. J. Wollack	Docushare
LSST Target of Opportunity proposal for locating a core collapse supernova in our galaxy triggered by a neutrino supernova alert	C.W. Walter, D. Scolnic, A. Slosar	arXiv
Mapping the Periphery and Variability of the Magellanic Clouds	Knut Olsen, Paula Szkody, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Marcella Di Criscienzo, Ilaria Musella, Vincenzo Ripepi, Francesco Borsa, Marcella Marconi, Léo Girardi, Giada Pastorelli, Michele Trabucchi, Paolo Ventura, Marc Moniiez	Docushare
Maximizing the Joint Science Return of LSST and DESI	Adam S. Bolton, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Knut Olsen, Segev BenZvi, Tim Eifler, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Or Graur, Alex G. Kim, Elisabeth Krause, Ofer Lahav, Alexie Leauthaud, Patrick McDonald, John Moustakas, Eva-Maria Mueller, Jeffrey A. Newman, David J. Schlegel, Risa H. Wechsler, Martin White, and Michael J. Wilson	Docusare
Mini-survey of the northern sky to Dec \(< +30\)	Capak, D. Sconlic, J-C. Cuillandre, F. Castander, A. Bolton, R. Bowler, C. Chang, A. Dey, T. Eiffler, D. Eisenstein, C. Grillmair, P. Gris, N. Hernitschek, I. Hook, C. Hirata, B. Jain K. Kuijken, M. Lochner, J. Newman, P. Oesch, K. Olsen, J. Rhodes, B. Robertson, D. Rubin, C. Scarlata, J. Silverman, S. Wachter, Y. Wang, The Tri-Agency Working Group	Docushare
Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Deep Drilling Fields and other Special Programs	Daniel M. Scolnic, Michelle Lochner, Phillipe Gris, Nicolas Regnault, Renée Hložek, Greg Aldering, Tarek Allam Jr, Humna Awan, Rahul Biswas, Jonathan Blazek, Chihway Chang, Eric Gawiser, Ariel Goobar, Iso-bel M. Hook, Saurabh W. Jha, Jason D. McEwen9, Rachel Mandelbaum, Phil Marshall, Eric Neilsen, Jason Rhodes, Daniel Rothchild, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Anže Slosar, Peter Yoachim	Docushare
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 Huber, Melissa L. Graham, Renée Hložek, Rahul Biswas, Tim Eifler, Daniel Rothchild, Tarek Allam Jr, 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, Jason Rhodes, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Anže Slosar, Sherry H. Suyu, J. Anthony Tyson, Peter Yoachim	Docushare
Presto-Color: An LSST Cadence for Explosive Physics and Fast Transients	Federica B. Bianco, New York Univeristy CUSP/CCPP, University of Delaware; Melissa Graham, University of Washington; Maria R. Drout, University of Toronto, Carnegie Observatories; Igor Andreoni, Caltech; Rahul Biswas, Stockholm University; Philip Cowperthwaite, Carnegie; Gautham Narayan, STScI; Tyler A. Pritchard, NYU; Tiago Ribeiro, LSST	Docushare
Searching for white dwarf transits with LSST	Roberto Silvotti, Francesca Faedi	Docushare
Simultaneous LSST and Euclid observations - advantages for Solar System Objects	Snodgrass, B. Carry, J. Berthier, S. Eggl, M. Mommert,J.-M. Petit, F. Spoto, M. Granvik, R. Laureijs, B. Altieri, R. Vavrek, L. Conversi, A. Nucita, M. Popescu, G. Verdoes Kleijn, M. Kidger, G. H. Jones, D. Oszkiewicz, M. Juric, L. Jones for the Euclid Solar System Object Science Working Group (SSO SWG)	Docushare
Strong Lensing considerations for the LSST observing strategy	Aprajita Verma, Thomas Collett, Graham P. Smith, on behalf of the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration and in collaboration with the DESC Strong Lensing Science Working Group	Docushare
Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST	The TVS Multiwavelength Characterization/GW Counterparts subgroup, Raffaella Margutti (chair, Northwestern), Section leaders: P. Cowperthwaite (Carnegie), Z. Doctor (UChicago), K. Mortensen (Northwestern), C. P. Pankow (Northwestern), O. Salafia (INAF), V. A. Villar (Harvard), Contributors (alphabetical order): K. Alexander (Northwestern), J. Annis (Fermilab), I. Andreoni (Caltech), A. Baldeschi (Northwestern), B. Balmaverde (UNIFI), E. Berger (Harvard), M. G. Bernardini (INAF), C. P. L. Berry (Northwestern), F. Bianco (NYU), P. K. Blanchard (Harvard), E. Brocato (INAF), M. I. Carnerero (INAF), R. Cartier (NOAO), S. B. Cenko (NASA/Goddard), R. Chornock (Ohio U), L. Chomiuk (MSU), C. M. Copperwheat (LJMU), M. W. Coughlin (Caltech), D. L. Coppejans (Northwestern), F. D’Ammando (INAF), L. Datrier (U Glasgow), P. D’Avanzo (INAF), G. Dimitriadis (UC Santa Cruz), R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), W. Fong (Northwestern), O. Fox (STScl), G. Ghirlanda (INAF), D. Goldstein (Caltech), J. Grindlay (Harvard), C. Guidorzi (Ferrara), Z. Haiman (Columbia), M. Hendry (U Glasgow), D. Holz (UChicago), T. Hung (UC Santa Cruz), C. Inserra (Cardiff), V. Kalogera (Northwestern), C. D. Kilpatrick (UC Santa Cruz), G. Lamb (Leicester), T. Laskar (U Bath), A. Levan (Warwick), E. Mason (INAF), K. Maguire (Belfast), A. Melandri (INAF), D. Milisavljevic (Purdue), A. Miller (Northwestern), G. Narayan (STScl), E. Nielsen (Stanford), M. Nicholl (U Edinburgh), S. Nissanke (UvA), P. Nugent (UC Berkeley), D. Pasham (MIT), K. Paterson (Northwestern), S. Piranomonte (INAF), J. Racusin (NASA/Goddard), A. Rest (STScl, JHU), C. Righi (Insubria), D. Sand (Arizona), R. Seaman (NOAO), D. Scolnic (U Chicago), K. Siellez (UC Santa Cruz), L. Singer (NASA/Goddard), P. Szkody (U Washington), M. Smith (Southampton), D. Steeghs	arXiv
TDEs with LSST	Katja Bricman and Andreja Gomboc	Docushare
Testing of LSST AGN Selection Using Rolling Cadences	Gordon Richards (Drexel), Weixiang Yu (Drexel), W.N. Brandt (Penn State), Qingling Ni (Penn State), Christina Peters (Toronto), Guang Yang (Penn State), Franz E. Bauer (PUC/SSI)	Docushare
The Definitive Map of the Galactic bulge	Oscar A. Gonzalez, Will Clarkson, Victor P. Debattista, Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, Giuseppe Bono, Massimo Dall’Ora, John Gizis, Nitya Kallivayalil, Daisuke Kawata, Phil Lucas, Dante Minniti, Ricardo Schiavon, Jay Strader, Rachel Street, Elena Valenti, and Manuela Zoccali	Docushare
The Diverse Science Return from a Wide-Area Survey of the Galactic Plane	R.A. Street, M. Lund, S. Khakpash, M. Donachie, W.A. Dawson, N. Golovich, L. Wyrzykowski, P. Szkody, T. Naylor, M. Penny, N. Rattenbury, M. Dall’Ora, W.I. Clarkson, D. Bennett, J. Pepper, M. Rabus, M.P.G. Hundertmark, Y. Tsapras, R. Di Stefano, S. Ridgway, M. Liu, E. Lin	Docushare
The Effects of Filter Choice on Outer Solar System Science with LSST	Kathryn Volk, Megan E. Schwamb, Wes Fraser, Michael S. P. Kelley, Hsing Wen (Edward) Lin, Darin Ragozzine, R. Lynne Jones, Colin Snodgrass, Michele T. Bannister	Docushare
The First Extragalactic Exoplanets - What We Gain From High Cadence Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud?	Radoslaw Poleski and Przemek Mróz	Docushare
The Gaia-LSST Synergy: resolved stellar populations in selected Local Group stellar systems	Clementini, I. Musella, A. Chieffi, M. Cignoni, F. Cusano, M. Di Criscienzo, M. Fabrizio, A. Garofalo, S. Leccia, M. Limongi, M. Marconi, E. Marini, A. Marino, P. Marrese, R. Molinaro, M.I. Moretti, T. Muraveva, V. Ripepi, G. Somma, P. Ventura	Docushare
The Plane’s The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane and Bulge	Jay Strader (Michigan State), Elias Aydi (Michigan State), Christopher Britt (STScI), Adam Burgasser (UCSD), Laura Chomiuk (Michigan State), Will Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), Brian D. Fields (Illinois), Poshak Gandhi (Southampton), Leo Girardi (Padova), John Gizis (Delaware), Jacob Hogan (Illinois), Michael A. C. Johnson (Southampton), James Lauroesch (Louisville), Michael Liu (Hawaii), Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech), Peregrine McGehee (College of the Canyons), Dante Minniti (Universidad Andrés Bello), Koji Mukai (NASA/Goddard), Alexandre RomanLopez (La Serena), Simone Scaringi (Texas Tech), Jennifer Sobeck (Washington), Kirill Sokolovsky (Michigan State), C. Tanner Murphey (Illinois), Xilu Wang (Notre Dame) on behalf of the Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume Collaboration	Docushare
Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge	R.A. Street, M. Lund, M. Donachie, S. Khakpash, N. Golovich, M. Penny, D. Bennett, W.A. Dawson, J. Pepper, M. Rabus, P. Szkody, W.I. Clarkson, R. Di Stefano, N. Rattenbury, M.P.G. Hundertmark, Y. Tsapras, S. Ridgway, K. Stassun, V. Bozza, A. Bhattacharya, S. Calchi Novati, Y. Shvartzvald	arXiv
unVEil the darknesS of The gAlactic bulge (VESTALE)	Bono, M. Dall’Ora, M. Fabrizio, J. Crestani, V.F. Braga, G. Fiorentino, G.Altavilla, M.T. Botticella, A. Calamida, M. Castellani, M. Catelan, B. Chaboyer, C. Chiappini, W. Clarkson, R. Contreras Ramos, O. Creevey, R. da Silva, V. Debattista, S. Degl’Innocenti, I. Ferraro, C.K. Gilligan, O. Gonzalez, G. Iannicola, L. Inno, A. Kunder, B. Lemasle, L. Magrini, D. Magurno, M. Marconi, M. Marengo, S. Marinoni, P.M. Marrese, C.E. Martínez-Vazquez, N. Matsunaga, M. Monelli, P.G. Prada Moroni, I. Musella, M.G. Navarro, J. Neeley, M. Nonino, A. Pietrinferni, L. Pulone, M.R. Rich, V. Ripepi, G. Sacco, A. Saha, M. Salaris, C. Sneden, P.B. Stetson, R.A Street, R. Szabo, M. Tantalo, E. Tognelli, M. Torelli, E. Valenti, A.R. Walker, and M. Zoccali.	Docushare
Unveiling the Rich and Diverse Universe of Subsecond Astrophysics through LSST Star Trails	David Thomas, Steven Kahn, Federica Bianco, Željko Ivezić, Claudia M. Raiteri, Andrea Possenti, John Peterson, Colin Burke, Robert Blum, George Jacoby, Steve Howell, Grzegorz Madejski	Docushare
Young Stars and their Variability with LSST	Rosaria (Sara) Bonito, Patrick Hartigan	Docushare