Authors
Nicholas Kaiser, Herve Aussel, Barry E Burke, Hans Boesgaard, Ken Chambers, Mark Richard Chun, James N Heasley, Klaus-Werner Hodapp, Bobby Hunt, Robert Jedicke, Dave Jewitt, Rolf Kudritzki, Gerard Anthony Luppino, Michael Maberry, Eugene Magnier, David G Monet, Peter M Onaka, Andrew J Pickles, Pui Hin H Rhoads, Theodore Simon, Alexander Szalay, Istvan Szapudi, David J Tholen, John L Tonry, Mark Waterson, John Wick
Publication date
2002/12/24
Conference
Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries
Volume
4836
Pages
154-164
Publisher
SPIE
Description
The IFA and collaborators are embarking on a project to develop a 4-telescope synoptic survey instrument. While somewhat smaller than the 6.5m class telescope envisaged by the decadal review in their proposal for a LSST, this facility will nonetheless be able to accomplish many of the LSST science goals. In this paper we will describe the motivation for a 'distributed aperture' approach for the LSST, the current concept for Pan-STARRS -- a pilot project for the LSST proper -- and its performance goals and science reach. We will also discuss how the facility may be expanded.
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