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Synergy between the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometre Array

Bacon, D; Bridle, S; Abdalla, FB; Brown, M; Bull, P; Camera, S; Fender, R; ... Zhao, G-B; + view all (2014) Synergy between the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometre Array. In: Proceedings of Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14). Proceedings of Science: Giardini Naxos, Italy. Green open access

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Abstract

We provide an overview of the science benefits of combining information from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). We first summarise the capabilities and timeline of the LSST and overview its science goals. We then discuss the science questions in common between the two projects, and how they can be best addressed by combining the data from both telescopes. We describe how weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies with LSST and SKA can provide improved constraints on the causes of the cosmological acceleration. We summarise the benefits to galaxy evolution studies of combining deep optical multi-band imaging with radio observations. Finally, we discuss the excellent match between one of the most unique features of the LSST, its temporal cadence in the optical waveband, and the time resolution of the SKA.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Synergy between the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometre Array
Event: Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/contribution.cg...
Language: English
Additional information: © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1493569
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