Exploring the Eclipsing Binary Yield of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Abstract
When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) goes online in the early 2020s, it will provide astrometric and photometric data on more than 10 billion stars, generating more than 30 terabytes of data per night for the duration of its 10-year project run. LSST will be uniquely adept at characterizing eclipsing binaries, due to the breadth of the survey (covering twice the area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in six different photometric bands), its short, 3-day cadence, and its long operational duration. Searching through the data for eclipsing binaries will be a feat unto itself for the sheer volume. Herein, we investigate the expected number of eclipsing binaries LSST will observe, detect, and properly characterize, as well as constrain the observing parameters that will maximize the number of eclipsing binaries detected.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AAS...23336317P