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EAS Publications Series
Volume 67-68, 2014
The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases
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| Page(s) | 211 - 217 | |
| Section | The Origin and History of the Milky Way | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1567038 | |
| Published online | 17 July 2015 | |
N.A. Walton, F. Figueras, L. Balaguer-Núñez and C. Soubiran (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 67–68 (2014) 211-217
The Gaia-LSST Synergy
1 LSST Project Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98155; LSST Project Office, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
2 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
3 Executive Officer for LSST Corporation, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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.
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