10 years. 6 filters. 1 tiny patch of sky. Thousands of time-variable cosmological distance probes.
In the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration we are interested in
making high accuracy cosmological measurements of type IA supernovae and
strong gravitational lens time delays with the Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope data. To do this, we need to build a number of software
instruments, and these must be tested and validated against realistic
simulated data. We are using the LSST photon simulator PhoSim
to
generate a ten year, 6-filter set of mock images of a small patch of
moderate Galactic latitude sky, containing an unrealistic overdensity of
supernovae and lensed quasars but with realistic observing conditions
and cadence. See the documents below for more details of our evolving
plans and progress to date.
Pserv
while Qserv is still under development.Some of these links are quite old, but will have to do while we write up our progress so far as a set of LSST DESC Notes.
Check out all of our GitHub contributions!
This is work in progress. If you would like to cite the Twinkles project in your research, please use '(LSST DESC, in prep.)' for now, and provide the URL of this repository. We aim to release our data products along with a companion paper during the DESC DC1 era, c. 2016. If you are interested in this project, feel free to post greetings, comments or queries to the issues.
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