2 code implementations • 18 Mar 2024 • Siddharth Chaini, Ashish Mahabal, Ajit Kembhavi, Federica B. Bianco
We explore the use of different distance metrics to aid in the classification of objects.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2021 • Ryan T. Scott, Erik L. Antonsen, Lauren M. Sanders, Jaden J. A. Hastings, Seung-min Park, Graham Mackintosh, Robert J. Reynolds, Adrienne L. Hoarfrost, Aenor Sawyer, Casey S. Greene, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Corey A. Theriot, Daniel C. Berrios, Jack Miller, Joel Babdor, Richard Barker, Sergio E. Baranzini, Afshin Beheshti, Stuart Chalk, Guillermo M. Delgado-Aparicio, Melissa Haendel, Arif A. Hamid, Philip Heller, Daniel Jamieson, Katelyn J. Jarvis, John Kalantari, Kia Khezeli, Svetlana V. Komarova, Matthieu Komorowski, Prachi Kothiyal, Ashish Mahabal, Uri Manor, Hector Garcia Martin, Christopher E. Mason, Mona Matar, George I. Mias, Jerry G. Myers, Jr., Charlotte Nelson, Jonathan Oribello, Patricia Parsons-Wingerter, R. K. Prabhu, Amina Ann Qutub, Jon Rask, Amanda Saravia-Butler, Suchi Saria, Nitin Kumar Singh, Frank Soboczenski, Michael Snyder, Karthik Soman, David Van Valen, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Liz Warren, Liz Worthey, Jason H. Yang, Marinka Zitnik, Sylvain V. Costes
Human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit will involve missions of significant distance and duration.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2021 • Lauren M. Sanders, Jason H. Yang, Ryan T. Scott, Amina Ann Qutub, Hector Garcia Martin, Daniel C. Berrios, Jaden J. A. Hastings, Jon Rask, Graham Mackintosh, Adrienne L. Hoarfrost, Stuart Chalk, John Kalantari, Kia Khezeli, Erik L. Antonsen, Joel Babdor, Richard Barker, Sergio E. Baranzini, Afshin Beheshti, Guillermo M. Delgado-Aparicio, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Casey S. Greene, Melissa Haendel, Arif A. Hamid, Philip Heller, Daniel Jamieson, Katelyn J. Jarvis, Svetlana V. Komarova, Matthieu Komorowski, Prachi Kothiyal, Ashish Mahabal, Uri Manor, Christopher E. Mason, Mona Matar, George I. Mias, Jack Miller, Jerry G. Myers Jr., Charlotte Nelson, Jonathan Oribello, Seung-min Park, Patricia Parsons-Wingerter, R. K. Prabhu, Robert J. Reynolds, Amanda Saravia-Butler, Suchi Saria, Aenor Sawyer, Nitin Kumar Singh, Frank Soboczenski, Michael Snyder, Karthik Soman, Corey A. Theriot, David Van Valen, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Liz Warren, Liz Worthey, Marinka Zitnik, Sylvain V. Costes
Space biology research aims to understand fundamental effects of spaceflight on organisms, develop foundational knowledge to support deep space exploration, and ultimately bioengineer spacecraft and habitats to stabilize the ecosystem of plants, crops, microbes, animals, and humans for sustained multi-planetary life.
1 code implementation • 26 Feb 2021 • Dmitry A. Duev, Bryce T. Bolin, Matthew J. Graham, Michael S. P. Kelley, Ashish Mahabal, Eric C. Bellm, Michael W. Coughlin, Richard Dekany, George Helou, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Frank J. Masci, Thomas A. Prince, Reed Riddle, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Stéfan J. van der Walt
We present Tails, an open-source deep-learning framework for the identification and localization of comets in the image data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a robotic optical time-domain survey currently in operation at the Palomar Observatory in California, USA.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2021 • Josiah N. Purdum, Zhong-Yi Lin, Bryce T. Bolin, Kritti Sharma, Phillip I. Choi, Varun Bhalerao, Harsh Kumar, Robert Quimby, Joannes C. Van Roestel, Chengxing Zhai, Yanga R. Fernandez, Josef Hanuš, Carey M. Lisse, Dennis Bodewits, Christoffer Fremling, Nathan Ryan Golovich, Chen-Yen Hsu, Wing-Huen Ip, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Navtej S. Saini, Michael Shao, Yuhan Yao, Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Igor Andreoni, Kevin B. Burdge, Rick Burruss, Chan-Kao Chang, Chris M. Copperwheat, Michael Coughlin, Kishalay De, Richard Dekany, Alexandre Delacroix, Andrew Drake, Dmitry Duev, Matthew Graham, David Hale, Erik C. Kool, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Iva S. Kostadinova, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Russ R. Laher, Ashish Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Przemyslaw J. Mróz, James D. Neill, Reed Riddle, Hector Rodriguez, Roger M. Smith, Richard Walters, Lin Yan, Jeffry Zolkower
We observed Episodically Active Asteroid (6478) Gault in 2020 with multiple telescopes in Asia and North America and have found that it is no longer active after its recent outbursts at the end of 2018 and start of 2019.
Time Series Analysis Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 22 Jan 2021 • Sriram Rao, Ashish Mahabal, Niyanth Rao, Cauligi Raghavendra
In the spirit of open data exploration we provide details of our pipeline, release our supervised machine learning model and code as open source, and make public the 38 candidates we have found in seven sectors.
no code implementations • 11 Jan 2021 • Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Matthew J. Hankins, Jennifer L. Sokoloski, Scott M. Adams, Michael C. B. Ashley, Aliya-Nur Babul, Ashot Bagdasaryan, Alexander Delacroix, Richard Dekany, Timothee Greffe, David Hale, Jacob E. Jencson, Viraj R. Karambelkar, Ryan M. Lau, Ashish Mahabal, Daniel McKenna, Anna M. Moore, Eran O. Ofek, Manasi Sharma, Roger M. Smith, Jamie Soon, Roberto Soria, Gokul Srinivasaragavan, Samaporn Tinyanont, Tony Travouillon
We perform the first quantitative simulation of a $3\pi$ time domain survey to estimate the Galactic nova rate using PGIR, and derive a rate of $\approx 46\pm13$ yr$^{-1}$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2 code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Miriam Cabero, Ashish Mahabal, Jess McIver
The rapid release of accurate sky localization for gravitational-wave candidates is crucial for multi-messenger observations.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 11 Aug 2020 • Sara Webb, Michelle Lochner, Daniel Muthukrishna, Jeff Cooke, Chris Flynn, Ashish Mahabal, Simon Goode, Igor Andreoni, Tyler Pritchard, Timothy M. C. Abbott
We present an unsupervised method for transient discovery using a clustering technique and the Astronomaly package.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 21 Dec 2019 • Anna Y. Q. Ho, Alessandra Corsi, S. Bradley Cenko, Francesco Taddia, S. R. Kulkarni, Scott Adams, Kishalay De, Richard Dekany, Dmitry D. Frederiks, Christoffer Fremling, V. Zach Golkhou, Thomas Kupfer, Russ R. Laher, Ashish Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Adam A. Miller, James D. Neill, Daniel Reiley, Reed Riddle, Anna Ridnaia, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, Jesper Sollerman, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Dmitry S. Svinkin, David L. Shupe
We present ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw), a high-velocity ("broad-lined") stripped-envelope (Type Ic) supernova (Ic-BL SN) discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility one-day cadence survey.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2019 • E. A. Huerta, Gabrielle Allen, Igor Andreoni, Javier M. Antelis, Etienne Bachelet, Bruce Berriman, Federica Bianco, Rahul Biswas, Matias Carrasco, Kyle Chard, Minsik Cho, Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Zachariah B. Etienne, Maya Fishbach, Francisco Förster, Daniel George, Tom Gibbs, Matthew Graham, William Gropp, Robert Gruendl, Anushri Gupta, Roland Haas, Sarah Habib, Elise Jennings, Margaret W. G. Johnson, Erik Katsavounidis, Daniel S. Katz, Asad Khan, Volodymyr Kindratenko, William T. C. Kramer, Xin Liu, Ashish Mahabal, Zsuzsa Marka, Kenton McHenry, Jonah Miller, Claudia Moreno, Mark Neubauer, Steve Oberlin, Alexander R. Olivas, Donald Petravick, Adam Rebei, Shawn Rosofsky, Milton Ruiz, Aaron Saxton, Bernard F. Schutz, Alex Schwing, Ed Seidel, Stuart L. Shapiro, Hongyu Shen, Yue Shen, Leo Singer, Brigitta M. Sipőcz, Lunan Sun, John Towns, Antonios Tsokaros, Wei Wei, Jack Wells, Timothy J. Williams, JinJun Xiong, Zhizhen Zhao
Multi-messenger astrophysics is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field that combines data, which vary in volume and speed of data processing, from many different instruments that probe the Universe using different cosmic messengers: electromagnetic waves, cosmic rays, gravitational waves and neutrinos.
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2019 • Dhruv Paranjpye, Ashish Mahabal, A. N. Ramaprakash, Gina Panopoulou, Kieran Cleary, Anthony Readhead, Dmitry Blinov, Kostas Tassis
Polarization measurements done using Imaging Polarimeters such as the Robotic Polarimeter are very sensitive to the presence of artefacts in images.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2019 • Ayon Biswas, Jess McIver, Ashish Mahabal
In this paper, we use machine learning techniques to gain insight into the predictive behavior of the LIGO detector optic cavities during the second LIGO-Virgo observing run.
1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2019 • Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Matthew J. Graham, Ben Rusholme, Richard Walters, Ishani Karmarkar, Sara Frederick, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Umaa Rebbapragada, Charlotte Ward
Efficient automated detection of flux-transient, reoccurring flux-variable, and moving objects is increasingly important for large-scale astronomical surveys.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 11 Apr 2019 • Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish Mahabal, Quan-Zhi Ye, Kushal Tirumala, Justin Belicki, Richard Dekany, Sara Frederick, Matthew J. Graham, Russ R. Laher, Frank J. Masci, Thomas A. Prince, Reed Riddle, Philippe Rosnet, Maayane T. Soumagnac
We present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system designed to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that are detected in the data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a wide-field, time-domain survey using a dedicated 47 sq.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 5 Feb 2019 • Ashish Mahabal, Umaa Rebbapragada, Richard Walters, Frank J. Masci, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Jan van Roestel, Quan-Zhi Ye, Rahul Biswas, Kevin Burdge, Chan-Kao Chang, Dmitry A. Duev, V. Zach Golkhou, Adam A. Miller, Jakob Nordin, Charlotte Ward, Scott Adams, Eric C. Bellm, Doug Branton, Brian Bue, Chris Cannella, Andrew Connolly, Richard Dekany, Ulrich Feindt, Tiara Hung, Lucy Fortson, Sara Frederick, C. Fremling, Suvi Gezari, Matthew Graham, Steven Groom, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shrinivas Kulkarni, Thomas Kupfer, Hsing Wen Lin, Chris Lintott, Ragnhild Lunnan, John Parejko, Thomas A. Prince, Reed Riddle, Ben Rusholme, Nicholas Saunders, Nima Sedaghat, David L. Shupe, Leo P. Singer, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Paula Szkody, Yutaro Tachibana, Kushal Tirumala, Sjoert van Velzen, Darryl Wright
The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2019 • Gabrielle Allen, Igor Andreoni, Etienne Bachelet, G. Bruce Berriman, Federica B. Bianco, Rahul Biswas, Matias Carrasco Kind, Kyle Chard, Minsik Cho, Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Zachariah B. Etienne, Daniel George, Tom Gibbs, Matthew Graham, William Gropp, Anushri Gupta, Roland Haas, E. A. Huerta, Elise Jennings, Daniel S. Katz, Asad Khan, Volodymyr Kindratenko, William T. C. Kramer, Xin Liu, Ashish Mahabal, Kenton McHenry, J. M. Miller, M. S. Neubauer, Steve Oberlin, Alexander R. Olivas Jr, Shawn Rosofsky, Milton Ruiz, Aaron Saxton, Bernard Schutz, Alex Schwing, Ed Seidel, Stuart L. Shapiro, Hongyu Shen, Yue Shen, Brigitta M. Sipőcz, Lunan Sun, John Towns, Antonios Tsokaros, Wei Wei, Jack Wells, Timothy J. Williams, JinJun Xiong, Zhizhen Zhao
We discuss key aspects to realize this endeavor, namely (i) the design and exploitation of scalable and computationally efficient AI algorithms for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics; (ii) cyberinfrastructure requirements to numerically simulate astrophysical sources, and to process and interpret Multi-Messenger Astrophysics data; (iii) management of gravitational wave detections and triggers to enable electromagnetic and astro-particle follow-ups; (iv) a vision to harness future developments of machine and deep learning and cyberinfrastructure resources to cope with the scale of discovery in the Big Data Era; (v) and the need to build a community that brings domain experts together with data scientists on equal footing to maximize and accelerate discovery in the nascent field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2017 • Nima Sedaghat, Ashish Mahabal
Large sky surveys are increasingly relying on image subtraction pipelines for real-time (and archival) transient detection.
3 code implementations • 19 Sep 2017 • Ashish Mahabal, Kshiteej Sheth, Fabian Gieseke, Akshay Pai, S. George Djorgovski, Andrew Drake, Matthew Graham, the CSS/CRTS/PTF Collaboration
As a result standard time series methods regularly used for financial and similar datasets are of little help and astronomers are usually left to their own instruments and techniques to classify light curves.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2017 • LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita, Federica B. Bianco, Eric C. Bellm, Niel Brandt, Will Clarkson, Andy Connolly, Eric Gawiser, Zeljko Ivezic, Lynne Jones, Michelle Lochner, Michael B. Lund, Ashish Mahabal, David Nidever, Knut Olsen, Stephen Ridgway, Jason Rhodes, Ohad Shemmer, David Trilling, Kathy Vivas, Lucianne Walkowicz, Beth Willman, Peter Yoachim, Scott Anderson, Pierre Antilogus, Ruth Angus, Iair Arcavi, Humna Awan, Rahul Biswas, Keaton J. Bell, David Bennett, Chris Britt, Derek Buzasi, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Laura Chomiuk, Chuck Claver, Kem Cook, James Davenport, Victor Debattista, Seth Digel, Zoheyr Doctor, R. E. Firth, Ryan Foley, Wen-fai Fong, Lluis Galbany, Mark Giampapa, John E. Gizis, Melissa L. Graham, Carl Grillmair, Phillipe Gris, Zoltan Haiman, Patrick Hartigan, Suzanne Hawley, Renee Hlozek, Saurabh W. Jha, C. Johns-Krull, Shashi Kanbur, Vassiliki Kalogera, Vinay Kashyap, Vishal Kasliwal, Richard Kessler, Alex Kim, Peter Kurczynski, Ofer Lahav, Michael C. Liu, Alex Malz, Raffaella Margutti, Tom Matheson, Jason D. McEwen, Peregrine McGehee, Soren Meibom, Josh Meyers, Dave Monet, Eric Neilsen, Jeffrey Newman, Matt O'Dowd, Hiranya V. Peiris, Matthew T. Penny, Christina Peters, Radoslaw Poleski, Kara Ponder, Gordon Richards, Jeonghee Rho, David Rubin, Samuel Schmidt, Robert L. Schuhmann, Avi Shporer, Colin Slater, Nathan Smith, Marcelles Soares-Santos, Keivan Stassun, Jay Strader, Michael Strauss, Rachel Street, Christopher Stubbs, Mark Sullivan, Paula Szkody, Virginia Trimble, Tony Tyson, Miguel de Val-Borro, Stefano Valenti, Robert Wagoner, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Bevin Ashley Zauderer
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, across half the sky and over ten years of repeated observation.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2015 • Fabian Gieseke, Cosmin Eugen Oancea, Ashish Mahabal, Christian Igel, Tom Heskes
A buffer k-d tree is a k-d tree variant for massively-parallel nearest neighbor search.
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2010 • Richard Kessler, Bruce Bassett, Pavel Belov, Vasudha Bhatnagar, Heather Campbell, Alex Conley, Joshua A. Frieman, Alexandre Glazov, Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan, Renee Hlozek, Saurabh Jha, Stephen Kuhlmann, Martin Kunz, Hubert Lampeitl, Ashish Mahabal, James Newling, Robert C. Nichol, David Parkinson, Ninan Sajeeth Philip, Dovi Poznanski, Joseph W. Richards, Steven A. Rodney, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Maximilian Stritzinger, Melvin Varughese
A spectroscopically confirmed subset was provided for training.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 15 May 2008 • Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson, Bob Abel, Emily Acosta, Robyn Allsman, David Alonso, Yusra AlSayyad, Scott F. Anderson, John Andrew, James Roger P. Angel, George Z. Angeli, Reza Ansari, Pierre Antilogus, Constanza Araujo, Robert Armstrong, Kirk T. Arndt, Pierre Astier, Éric Aubourg, Nicole Auza, Tim S. Axelrod, Deborah J. Bard, Jeff D. Barr, Aurelian Barrau, James G. Bartlett, Amanda E. Bauer, Brian J. Bauman, Sylvain Baumont, Andrew C. Becker, Jacek Becla, Cristina Beldica, Steve Bellavia, Federica B. Bianco, Rahul Biswas, Guillaume Blanc, Jonathan Blazek, Roger D. Blandford, Josh S. Bloom, Joanne Bogart, Tim W. Bond, Anders W. Borgland, Kirk Borne, James F. Bosch, Dominique Boutigny, Craig A. Brackett, Andrew Bradshaw, William Nielsen Brandt, Michael E. Brown, James S. Bullock, Patricia Burchat, David L. Burke, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Daniel Calabrese, Shawn Callahan, Alice L. Callen, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, Glenaver Charles-Emerson, Steve Chesley, Elliott C. Cheu, Hsin-Fang Chiang, James Chiang, Carol Chirino, Derek Chow, David R. Ciardi, Charles F. Claver, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Joseph J. Cockrum, Rebecca Coles, Andrew J. Connolly, Kem H. Cook, Asantha Cooray, Kevin R. Covey, Chris Cribbs, Wei Cui, Roc Cutri, Philip N. Daly, Scott F. Daniel, Felipe Daruich, Guillaume Daubard, Greg Daues, William Dawson, Francisco Delgado, Alfred Dellapenna, Robert de Peyster, Miguel de Val-Borro, Seth W. Digel, Peter Doherty, Richard Dubois, Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann, Josef Durech, Frossie Economou, Michael Eracleous, Henry Ferguson, Enrique Figueroa, Merlin Fisher-Levine, Warren Focke, Michael D. Foss, James Frank, Michael D. Freemon, Emmanuel Gangler, Eric Gawiser, John C. Geary, Perry Gee, Marla Geha, Charles J. B. Gessner, Robert R. Gibson, D. Kirk Gilmore, Thomas Glanzman, William Glick, Tatiana Goldina, Daniel A. Goldstein, Iain Goodenow, Melissa L. Graham, William J. Gressler, Philippe Gris, Leanne P. Guy, Augustin Guyonnet, Gunther Haller, Ron Harris, Patrick A. Hascall, Justine Haupt, Fabio Hernandez, Sven Herrmann, Edward Hileman, Joshua Hoblitt, John A. Hodgson, Craig Hogan, Dajun Huang, Michael E. Huffer, Patrick Ingraham, Walter R. Innes, Suzanne H. Jacoby, Bhuvnesh Jain, Fabrice Jammes, James Jee, Tim Jenness, Garrett Jernigan, Darko Jevremović, Kenneth Johns, Anthony S. Johnson, Margaret W. G. Johnson, R. Lynne Jones, Claire Juramy-Gilles, Mario Jurić, Jason S. Kalirai, Nitya J. Kallivayalil, Bryce Kalmbach, Jeffrey P. Kantor, Pierre Karst, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Heather Kelly, Richard Kessler, Veronica Kinnison, David Kirkby, Lloyd Knox, Ivan V. Kotov, Victor L. Krabbendam, K. Simon Krughoff, Petr Kubánek, John Kuczewski, Shri Kulkarni, John Ku, Nadine R. Kurita, Craig S. Lage, Ron Lambert, Travis Lange, J. Brian Langton, Laurent Le Guillou, Deborah Levine, Ming Liang, Kian-Tat Lim, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin E. Long, Margaux Lopez, Paul J. Lotz, Robert H. Lupton, Nate B. Lust, Lauren A. MacArthur, Ashish Mahabal, Rachel Mandelbaum, Darren S. Marsh, Philip J. Marshall, Stuart Marshall, Morgan May, Robert McKercher, Michelle McQueen, Joshua Meyers, Myriam Migliore, Michelle Miller, David J. Mills, Connor Miraval, Joachim Moeyens, David G. Monet, Marc Moniez, Serge Monkewitz, Christopher Montgomery, Fritz Mueller, Gary P. Muller, Freddy Muñoz Arancibia, Douglas R. Neill, Scott P. Newbry, Jean-Yves Nief, Andrei Nomerotski, Martin Nordby, Paul O'Connor, John Oliver, Scot S. Olivier, Knut Olsen, William O'Mullane, Sandra Ortiz, Shawn Osier, Russell E. Owen, Reynald Pain, Paul E. Palecek, John K. Parejko, James B. Parsons, Nathan M. Pease, J. Matt Peterson, John R. Peterson, Donald L. Petravick, M. E. Libby Petrick, Cathy E. Petry, Francesco Pierfederici, Stephen Pietrowicz, Rob Pike, Philip A. Pinto, Raymond Plante, Stephen Plate, Paul A. Price, Michael Prouza, Veljko Radeka, Jayadev Rajagopal, Andrew P. Rasmussen, Nicolas Regnault, Kevin A. Reil, David J. Reiss, Michael A. Reuter, Stephen T. Ridgway, Vincent J. Riot, Steve Ritz, Sean Robinson, William Roby, Aaron Roodman, Wayne Rosing, Cecille Roucelle, Matthew R. Rumore, Stefano Russo, Abhijit Saha, Benoit Sassolas, Terry L. Schalk, Pim Schellart, Rafe H. Schindler, Samuel Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Michael D. Schneider, William Schoening, German Schumacher, Megan E. Schwamb, Jacques Sebag, Brian Selvy, Glenn H. Sembroski, Lynn G. Seppala, Andrew Serio, Eduardo Serrano, Richard A. Shaw, Ian Shipsey, Jonathan Sick, Nicole Silvestri, Colin T. Slater, J. Allyn Smith, R. Chris Smith, Shahram Sobhani, Christine Soldahl, Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, Edward Stover, Michael A. Strauss, Rachel A. Street, Christopher W. Stubbs, Ian S. Sullivan, Donald Sweeney, John D. Swinbank, Alexander Szalay, Peter Takacs, Stephen A. Tether, Jon J. Thaler, John Gregg Thayer, Sandrine Thomas, Vaikunth Thukral, Jeffrey Tice, David E. Trilling, Max Turri, Richard Van Berg, Daniel Vanden Berk, Kurt Vetter, Francoise Virieux, Tomislav Vucina, William Wahl, Lucianne Walkowicz, Brian Walsh, Christopher W. Walter, Daniel L. Wang, Shin-Yawn Wang, Michael Warner, Oliver Wiecha, Beth Willman, Scott E. Winters, David Wittman, Sidney C. Wolff, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Xiuqin Wu, Bo Xin, Peter Yoachim, Hu Zhan, for the LSST Collaboration
About 90\% of the observing time will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a 18, 000 deg$^2$ region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to $r\sim27. 5$.