The Plane's The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane and Bulge

We argue that the exclusion of the Galactic Plane and Bulge from the uniform wide-fast-deep (WFD) LSST survey cadence is fundamentally inconsistent with two of the main science drivers of LSST: Mapping the Milky Way and Exploring the Transient Optical Sky. We outline the philosophical basis for this...

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Hauptverfasser:	Strader, Jay, Aydi, Elias, Britt, Christopher, Burgasser, Adam, Chomiuk, Laura, Clarkson, Will, Fields, Brian D, Gandhi, Poshak, Girardi, Leo, Gizis, John, Hogan, Jacob, Johnson, Michael A. C, Lauroesch, James, Liu, Michael, Maccarone, Tom, McGehee, Peregrine, Minniti, Dante, Mukai, Koji, Murphey, C. Tanner, Roman-Lopez, Alexandre, Scaringi, Simone, Sobeck, Jennifer, Sokolovsky, Kirill, Wang, Xilu
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Physics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
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Zusammenfassung:	We argue that the exclusion of the Galactic Plane and Bulge from the uniform wide-fast-deep (WFD) LSST survey cadence is fundamentally inconsistent with two of the main science drivers of LSST: Mapping the Milky Way and Exploring the Transient Optical Sky. We outline the philosophical basis for this claim and then describe a number of important science goals that can only be addressed by WFD-like coverage of the Plane and Bulge.
DOI:	10.48550/arxiv.1811.12433