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SUMMARY:The Solar System Revolution with the Legacy Survey of Space and Ti
 me - Meg Schwamb (Queen's University Belfast)
DTSTART:20260212T160000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Grayling
DESCRIPTION:The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start science ope
 rations and begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in the coming
  weeks. Housing the 8.4-m Simonyi Survey Telescope and the world's largest
  digital camera (3.2-gigapixels and a 9.6 square degree field-of-view)\, R
 ubin Observatory will spend the next ten years covering the entire visible
  sky from Chile every ~3 nights. \n\nThe small bodies within the Solar Sys
 tem originated in the construction zones that formed our planets. As the f
 ossils left over from the era of planet formation\, asteroids\, comets\, a
 nd Kuiper belt objects\, inform our knowledge about the growth of planetes
 imals and planetary embryos as well as the dynamical evolution of our Sola
 r System. Rubin Observatory will completely transform our view of the Sola
 r System with the LSST. The orbits and broad-band photometry of LSST Solar
  System discoveries will provide an unprecedented view of both the Solar S
 ystem's history and the processes active today. For example\, LSST will di
 scover more asteroids that have ever been discovered by humans to date and
  monitor these objects for years with multi-band photometry for cometary a
 ctivity and changes in brightness. \n\nIn this talk\, I will present the p
 redictions for LSST Solar System small body discoveries\, Sorcha (the Sola
 r System survey simulator developed especially to handle the challenges of
  the LSST data rate)\, and the opportunities for cutting edge science in t
 he often-unexplored middle Solar System.\n
LOCATION:Hoyle Lecture Theatre\, Institute of Astronomy
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