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Survey Strategy: SCOC Phase 2�Brief Intro

Federica Bianco, on behalf of the SCOC

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A huge thank you!

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This is truly the work of hundreds of people in the community that are helping us making sure LSST is every bit as amazing as it can be!

Eric Neilson, Tiago Ribeiro

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A huge thank you!

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54 github

contributors

2015-17

2021

2018

467 unique authors

218 unique authors

14 OpSims

16 OpSims

173 OpSims

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OpSims and MAFs : a unique framework for community contributions to survey design

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rubin_sims An Open Source simulation framework that enables community contributions to survey design

https://github.com/lsst/rubin_sim

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OpSims and MAFs : a unique framework for community contributions to survey design

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OpSims (strategy)

MAFs (science)

Naghib et al. 2019

Delgado & Reuter 2016

Delgado et al. 2014

OpSims

Jones et al. 2014

MAF

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Observing Strategy

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Observing Strategy

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Observing Strategy

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With your help we have already significantly improved the strategy!

Phase 1 implementation

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With your help we have already significantly improved the strategy!

  • Most science areas benefit from the recommendations implemented in v2.0/2.1
  • Some science cases benefit enormously
  • A handful of science cases are impacted negatively, and they are under investigation

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Community Input and Current OpSims

V2.0 simulations released Nov 2021

V2.1 simulations April 2022

V2.2 - as needed�~500 OpSims available

  • Address rolling strategies
  • Includes triplets - “long time gaps” and “presto color” strategies
  • Vary exposure time
  • Implement microsurveys (including ToO)
  • Refinement of the overall footprint including Galactic footprint and NES
  • Deep Drilling Fields implementations (V2.1)

54 github

contributors

2015-17

2021

2018

467 unique authors

218 unique authors

14 OpSims

16 OpSims

173 OpSims

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Community Input and Current OpSims

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With your help we have already significantly improved the strategy!

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  • Recognizing the burn-out of the community we did not request any other formal input for V2.x opsims

  • The MAFs guide us but even with the MAFs this is not a simple downhill optimization problem: we need domain expertise from the SCOC members and your guidance
  • The SCs liaisons are there for the SC to continuously interact with us and be informed about what we are doing

  • For the broader community the SCOC welcomes communication on lsst.community.org

  • Even if we did not request them, the community has stepped up and several SCs have produced reports!!

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Observing strategy

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V2.99 simulations release!!

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V2.0 simulations released Nov 2021

V2.1 simulations April 2022

V2.2 - as needed�~500 OpSims available

V2.99 simulations released Oct 25th 2022

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Phase 2 Timeline

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November 2021

V2.0 OpSim released

June 4th 2022

SCOC releases internal template on community

May 4th 2022

V2.1 OpSim announced on community

April 2022

V2.1 OpSim complete

November 2-3

SCOC-Community workshop

PCW: we are presenting current considerations that will lead to the formal recommendations.

Released draft recommendations and new baseline OpSim + 3 variations one week before the workshop

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Phase 2 Timeline

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November 2021

V2.0 OpSim released

June 4th 2022

SCOC releases internal template on community

May 4th 2022

V2.1 OpSim announced on community

April 2022

V2.1 OpSim complete

November 2-3

SCOC-Community workshop

PCW: we are presenting current considerations that will lead to the formal recommendations.

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Phase 2 Timeline

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November 2021

V2.0 OpSim released

June 4th 2022

SCOC releases internal template on community

May 4th 2022

V2.1 OpSim announced on community

April 2022

V2.1 OpSim complete

November 2-3

SCOC-Community workshop

PCW: we are presenting current considerations that will lead to the formal recommendations.

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V2.99 simulations description

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“draft_connected_v2.99_10yrs.db”

This is a 2 band 0.9 strength rolling cadence (but starts after a full 1.5 years, so not “early”).

There are long gap triplets every 6 nights, and revisits within 0-2 hours are suppressed (at the lowest strength).

The twilight NEO microsurvey is added starting year 1, using riz filters and 4 repeats per night, and active every 4th night.

The galactic plane footprint is based on the TVS/SLWMV priority map, modified to reduce isolated areas.

The galactic plane filter balance is very red.

The NES weight has been lowered slightly from baseline.

The DDF visits make up about 7.5% of the total visits, with COSMOS acquiring ~double depth (10yr depth by year 3, then continuing at the standard cadence for the remainder of the survey). The DDF strategy is a fairly simple pre-scheduled season.

“dd6_v2.99_10yrs.db”

This is similar to the above simulation, but reduces the fraction of time spent on the DDFs to 5% total. The reduction is implemented uniformly across all of the DDFs.

“low_gp_v2.99_10yrs.db”

Again, similar to the draft_connected simulation, but the weight of the footprint within the galactic plane WFD area is strongly reduced, which reduces the number of visits in the galactic plane ‘high cadence’ (WFD-level) area.

“roll_early_v2.99_10yrs.db”

This is similar to the draft_connected simulation, except in some areas related to cadence.

The 2-band rolling cadence starts “early”. In addition the repeat weight is stronger.

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