Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: A community meeting on the topic of "Radio Astronomy in the LSST Era" was hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA (2013 May 6--8). The focus of the workshop was on time domain radio astronomy and sky surveys. For the time domain, the extent to which radio and visible wavelength observations are required to understand several classes of transients was stressed, but there are also classes of radio transients for which no visible wavelength counterpart is yet known, providing an opportunity for discovery. From the LSST perspective, the LSST is expected to generate as many as 1 million alerts nightly, which will require even more selective specification and identification of the classes and characteristics of transients that can warrant follow up, at radio or any wavelength. The LSST will also conduct a deep survey of the sky, producing a catalog expected to contain over 38 billion objects in it. Deep radio wavelength sky surveys will also be conducted on a comparable time scale, and radio and visible wavelength observations are part of the multi-wavelength approach needed to classify and understand these objects. Radio wavelengths are valuable because they are unaffected by dust obscuration and, for galaxies, contain contributions both from star formation and from active galactic nuclei. The workshop touched on several other topics, on which there was consensus including the placement of other LSST "Deep Drilling Fields," inter-operability of software tools, and the challenge of filtering and exploiting the LSST data stream. There were also topics for which there was insufficient time for full discussion or for which no consensus was reached, which included the procedures for following up on LSST observations and the nature for future support of researchers desiring to use LSST data products.
DOI: 10.1086/675262
Authors: Joseph W. Lazio, A. Kimball, A. J. Barger, W. N. Brandt, S. Chatterjee, T. E. Clarke, J. J. Condon, Robert L. Dickman, M. T. Hunyh, Matt J. Jarvis, Mario Jurić, N. E. Kassim, S. T. Myers, Samaya Nissanke, Rachel Osten, B. A. Zauderer
Institutions: California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University, United States Naval Research Laboratory, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Oxford, SKA Telescope, Australia, University of the Western Cape, Space Telescope Science Institute, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,325
Award: G7925574796
OpenAlex ID: W1970694414