Everything we'd like to do with LSST data, but we don't know (yet) how

Ž Ivezić, AJ Connolly, M Jurić�- Proceedings of the International�…, 2016 - cambridge.org
volume of the available data will mean that systematics are the dominant source of uncertainty
(that is… Many of the required simulation tools are in development (eg Connolly et al. 2014). …

A framework for telescope schedulers: with applications to the large synoptic survey telescope

…, P Yoachim, RJ Vanderbei, AJ Connolly…�- The Astronomical�…, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
… Another example is the Las Cumbres Observatory, Global … algorithms (Boroson et al. 2014;
Saunders & Lampoudi 2014). LCOGT uses … Our framework is general and covers all possible …

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a pioneering process of community-focused experimental�…

…, M Catelan, WI Clarkson, AJ Connolly…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… effort (Connolly et al. 2014), and have evolved over time with considerable community input.
… has been providing valuable advice to Rubin on cadence issues since its inception in 2014. …

Robust period estimation using mutual information for multiband light curves in the synoptic survey era

…, F F�rster, SF Daniel, AJ Connolly…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Connolly acknowledges partial support by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science,
under award No. DE-SC-0011635, from the DIRAC Institute and the LSST, and from the NSF …

Photometric redshifts with the LSST: evaluating survey observing strategies

ML Graham, AJ Connolly, Ž Ivezić…�- The Astronomical�…, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… ugrizy by year 10 (where each visit is 30 s of integration time). We use the LSST simulations
software package described by Connolly et al. (2014) to calculate the magnitude errors. In …

Give Me a Few Hours: Exploring Short Timescales in Rubin Observatory Cadence Simulations

EC Bellm, CJ Burke, MW Coughlin…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
… Given the scale of the survey and the breadth of its scientific aims (Abell et al. 2009), the
project is conducting extensive simulations (Connolly et al. 2014) of potential cadences and …

Photometric redshifts with the LSST. II. The impact of near-infrared and near-ultraviolet photometry

ML Graham, AJ Connolly, W Wang…�- The Astronomical�…, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
is 30 s of integration time). We use the LSST simulations software package described by
Connolly et al. (2014) to calculate the magnitude errors; it includes a systematic floor of 0.005 in …

Estimating spectra from photometry

JB Kalmbach, AJ Connolly�- The Astronomical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… (2017) that was created using the galaxy formation model of Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2014)
with redshifts up to z = 6, but we focus our results on the 89,471 objects with $z\leqslant 3$ …

Initial Estimates on the Performance of the LSST on the Detection of Eclipsing Binaries

M Wells, A Prs̆a, L Jones…�- Publications of the�…, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we quantify the performance of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
on the detection of eclipsing binaries. We use Kepler observed binaries to create a large …

Applying Information Theory to Design Optimal Filters for Photometric Redshifts

…, JT VanderPlas, AJ Connolly�- The Astrophysical�…, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… The sky background is modeled with a sky SED provided in the LSST Sims throughputs
package (Connolly et al. 2014). We choose i = 25.3 for our normalization since this matches the …