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LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint
magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science
opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field
of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over
20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with
fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a
total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic
parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book
discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a
broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and
outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies,
the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local
Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the
properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then
turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to
z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and
baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to
constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.Comment: 596 pages. Also available at full resolution at
http://www.lsst.org/lsst/sciboo
Ornithological Notes of Rafinesque in the Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine, Lexington, Ky
Volume: 29Start Page: 401End Page: 40
Additions to the Known Ornithological Publications of C. S. Rafinesque
Volume: 29Start Page: 191End Page: 19
Rhoads on the Extinction of the Dickcissel East of the Alleghanies
Volume: 21Start Page: 401End Page: 40
Birds of the Paramo of Central Ecuador
Volume: 29Start Page: 141End Page: 14
Unseasonable Nesting of the Ground Dove in Florida
Volume: 12Start Page: 79End Page: 8
Descriptions of New Species of North American Mammals with Remarks on Species of the Genus Perognathus
Volume: 45Start Page: 404End Page: 41
Rhoads\u27s Observations on British Columbia and Washington Birds
Volume: 10Start Page: 290End Page: 29
Descriptions of New Mammals from Florida and Southern California
Volume: 47Start Page: 32End Page: 3
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