Bob Abel

TL;DR: The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.

TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors is a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain repeated images covering the sky visible from Cerro Pachon in northern Chile.

TL;DR: Pitch angle diffusion rates due to Coulomb collisions and resonant interactions with plasmaspheric hiss, lightning-induced whistlers and anthropogenic VLF transmissions are computed for inner magnetospheric electrons as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the sensitivity of the rate of energetic electron pitch angle scattering and precipitation loss in the Earth's magnetosphere due to Coulomb interactions with thermal plasma and resonant wave-particle interactions with plasmaspheric hiss, lightning-generated whistlers and VLF transmitter signals is computed for a realistic range of plasma and wave parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of the observed energy spectra at L equal to or greater than 1.35 for different phases of the solar cycle reveals a clear trend toward enhanced fluxes during periods of solar maximum for energies below a few hundred keV; this is caused by an increase in the rate of inward radial diffusion from a source at higher L.