Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to revolutionize solar system astronomy. Unprecedented in scale, this 10 yr wide-field survey will collect billions of observations and discover a predicted ∼5 million new solar system objects. Like all...

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Published in:	The Astronomical Journal
Main Authors:	Stephanie R. Merritt, Grigori Fedorets, Megan E. Schwamb, Samuel Cornwall, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Matthew J. Holman, Jacob A. Kurlander, Siegfried Eggl, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Jeremy Kubica, Joseph Murtagh, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim, Ryan R. Lyttle, Michael S. P. Kelley, Joachim Moeyens, Kathleen Kiker, Shantanu P. Naidu, Colin Snodgrass, Shannon M. Matthews, Colin Orion Chandler
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Solar system astronomy Small Solar System bodies Astronomy software Astronomical simulations
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/add3ec