Daftar Isi: Instrumenting the sky with software

Daftar Isi:

The development of a new generation of telescopes, large-scale detectors, and computational facilities has led to an era where it is now possible for deep optical surveys to survey a large fraction of the visible sky. One of the largest of these surveys, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will comprise an 8.4 m primary mirror with a 9.6 square degree field-of-view and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera and begin operations at the end of this decade. Over the ten years of its operation, the LSST will survey half of the sky in six optical colors, discovering 37 billion stars and galaxies and detecting about 10 million variable or transient sources every night. In this talk I will describe how advances in computational techniques for analyzing massive data streams might enable the LSST to meet its science objectives.
Plenary talk presented at the LSST2016 meeting, presenting a compressed and edited form of the SPIE presentation found at doi:10.5281/zenodo.56737