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A community white paper about LSST observing strategy, with quantifications via the the Metric Analysis Framework.
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Pulsating white dwarfs and other short-period variables should be tabulated in section 6.3.1 #82

Closed keatonb closed 8 years ago

keatonb commented 9 years ago

@lmwalkowicz

Even though the LSST revisit rate in the main survey is too low to resolve a power spectrum of variability in (multi-)periodic variables with period(s) ~10 minutes, the photometric precision will allow detection of variability and some characterization (esp. in terms of color amplitudes and moments of measured brightness distributions). I intend to write MAF metrics to evaluate the sensitivity of OpSIM runs to low amplitude, high-frequency variability. Please include these objects (pulsating white dwarfs and other short-period variables) in the Table of Section 6.3.1 and I will supply more text and analysis later.

StephenRidgway commented 9 years ago

Added white dwarfs to table, and several other changes suggested by Paula.

On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Keaton Bell notifications@github.com wrote:

Even though the LSST revisit rate in the main survey is too low to resolve a power spectrum of variability in (multi-)periodic variables with period(s) ~10 minutes, the photometric precision will allow detection of variability and some characterization (esp. in terms of color amplitudes and moments of measured brightness distributions). I intend to write MAF metrics to evaluate the sensitivity of OpSIM runs to low amplitude, high-frequency variability. Please include these objects in the Table of Section 6.3.1 and I will supply more text and analysis in the near future.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/LSSTScienceCollaborations/ObservingStrategy/issues/82.

drphilmarshall commented 9 years ago

Thanks @keatonb! Can I suggest that when you start working on the text, you open a pull request as soon as you have pushed your first commit? That way, all your work will be logged, and everyone else can follow along and comment. Will's following this model in #99 right now, for example. Good luck! :-)

drphilmarshall commented 9 years ago

Also, @lmwalkowicz please do close this out if you're happy with how things look for now!

drphilmarshall commented 8 years ago

I guess Lucianne was happy!