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The LSST's Supersized Sweep of the SkyThe Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will plumb a bigger volume of the universe than any survey before it, isn't just a challenge for astronomers. It also requires the expertise of high-energy physicists, who play key roles in advancing the flourishing field of survey astronomy. The LSST is Large—that's what the L stands for. The SS stands for Synoptic Survey, so it promises to look at every aspect of a very big whole. When it comes to the tools of physics research, high-energy physicists reign over the very large. They build accelerators that stretch for miles, detectors the size of apartment buildings, data sets so big that no commercial database can hold them, and collaborations that rival the populations of small cities. The Large Synoptic Survey's scale gives it the ring of a giant particle physics project. But the LSST's final letter is for Telescope, the canonical tool of astronomy. And the LSST, like its name, is a merger of high-energy physics and astronomy. From the beginning, the two fields have joined forces to conceive, design and build the giant telescope. Read more in Symmetry magazine... Workshop Highlights
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