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arxiv: 2009.07653 · v1 · pith:XARJ256Fnew · submitted 2020-09-14 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

The Scientific Impact of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) for Solar System Science

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration , R. Lynne Jones , Michelle T. Bannister , Bryce T. Bolin , Colin Orion Chandler , Steven R. Chesley , Siegfried Eggl , Sarah Greenstreet
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Timothy R. Holt Henry H. Hsieh Zeljko Ivezi\'c Mario Juri\'c Michael S. P. Kelley Matthew M. Knight Renu Malhotra William J. Oldroyd Gal Sarid Megan E. Schwamb Colin Snodgrass Michael Solontoi David E. Trilling
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y over the course of ten years using a 6.5 m effective diameter telescope with a 9.6 square degree field of view, reaching approximately r = 24.5 mag (5-{\sigma} depth) per visit. The resulting dataset will provide extraordinary opportunities for both discovery and characterization of large numbers (10--100 times more than currently known) of small solar system bodies, furthering studies of planetary formation and evolution. This white paper summarizes some of the expected science from the ten years of LSST, and emphasizes that the planetary astronomy community should remain invested in the path of Rubin Observatory once the LSST is complete.

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