Orateur
Benoit Carry
(Lagrange, Observatoire de la Cote d Azur)
Description
In contrast with many surveys that imaged only once their survey
footprint, the LSST will repeatedly image its survey area for a decade.
This aspect is key for Solar System science, owing to the ever-changing
coordinates and photometry of the objects imposed by celestial mechanics.
The LSST is expected to revolutionize the field, by significantly
increasing the total known population of Solar System Objects (SSOs).
Its multi-filter multi-epoch photometry and astrometry will allow
dynamical, physical, and compositional characterizations of SSOs for a
sample several orders of magnitude larger than current census.
I will present an overview of these different aspects.
Author
Benoit Carry
(Lagrange, Observatoire de la Cote d Azur)
