The Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Low Surface Brightness Universe
Abstract
The 8.4m Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start a ten-year survey of the southern hemisphere sky in 2023. LSST will revolutionise low surface brightness astronomy. It will transform our understanding of galaxy evolution, through the study of low surface brightness features around galaxies (faint shells, tidal tails, halos and stellar streams), discovery of low surface brightness galaxies and the first set of statistical measurements of the intracluster light over a significant range of cluster masses and redshifts.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2001.11067
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2001.11067
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200111067B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Invited talk, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 355, 'The Realm of the Low-surface-brightness Universe'