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The Gaia-LSST Synergy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2015

Ž. Ivezić
Affiliation:
LSST Project Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98155; LSST Project Office, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
S.M. Kahn
Affiliation:
LSST Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94025; LSST Project Office, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
P. Eliason
Affiliation:
Executive Officer for LSST Corporation, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Abstract

We discuss the synergy of Gaia and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in the context of Milky Way studies. LSST can be thought of as Gaia's deep complement because the two surveys will deliver trigonometric parallax, proper-motion, and photometric measurements with similar uncertainties at Gaia's faint end at r = 20, and LSST will extend these measurements to a limit about five magnitudes fainter. We also point out that users of Gaia data will have developed data analysis skills required to benefit from LSST data, and provide detailed information about how international participants can join LSST.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2015

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