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Steven M. Kahn

Researcher at Stanford University

Publications -  92
Citations -  9353

Steven M. Kahn is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope & Electron beam ion trap. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 92 publications receiving 8241 citations.

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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 Science Book, Version 2.0

Paul A. Abell, +245 more
TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 degrees.
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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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The X-Ray Observatory Suzaku

Kazuhisa Mitsuda, +142 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the spacecraft, in-orbit performance, operations, and data processing that are related to observations of the Suzaku X-ray observatory, including high-sensitivity wide-band Xray spectroscopy.
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The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary

Joshua A. Frieman, +108 more
TL;DR: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) as mentioned in this paper is a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using repeated five-band imaging over an area of 300 sq. deg.