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Peter Yoachim

Researcher at University of Washington

Publications -  91
Citations -  6879

Peter Yoachim is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 81 publications receiving 5481 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Yoachim include University of Texas at Austin.

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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, +312 more
- 15 May 2008 - 
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.
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LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, +335 more
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.
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Structural Parameters of Thin and Thick Disks in Edge-on Disk Galaxies

TL;DR: In this paper, the global structure of 34 late-type, edge-on, undisturbed, disk galaxies spanning a wide range of mass was analyzed using two-dimensional least-squares fitting to their R-band photometry.
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The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

The Astropy Collaboration, +135 more
TL;DR: Astropy as mentioned in this paper is a Python package that provides commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community, such as astronomy, astronomy, and astronomy data visualization, as well as other related projects and packages.
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Alexandra Abate, +173 more
TL;DR: The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) as discussed by the authors is an analytical framework for dark energy and related topics in fundamental physics with data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).