Subject: Cadence and GI program

From: Robert Nemiroff

Submitted: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:06:34 -0500

Message number: 94 (previous: 93, next: 95 up: Index)

Dear LSSTers,

Michael Strauss has encouraged me to advertise my general paper on 
cadence rates that can be found on astro-ph here: 
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0301583
and should appear in the May AJ.  There is a specific section on LSST
but it is geared toward SNe detection, not saving people from space
rocks.  I would be very happy to participate in any discussion of LSST
cadence.  Of course, the first step in determining cadence is to determine
concrete science goals in general and the minimum observations 
needed to detect and extract the science from primary transients of
interest.

To further decrease the popularity of my occasional postings, I would like 
to suggest that LSST invoke a guest investigator (GI) program.  Here,  
astronomers external to LSST can propose their own scientific agenda
(be it SNe, planet detection, whatever) and compete to determine 
science-optimizing bandpass and cadence for some part of LSST's lifetime.  
I suggest starting with one month of GI time during the second LSST 
year, and increasing thereafter as LSST achieves increasing fractions of 
its primary science goals.

- Robert Nemiroff



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