The Plane's The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane and Bulge

Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Christopher Britt , Adam Burgasser , Laura Chomiuk , Will Clarkson , Brian D. Fields , Poshak Gandhi

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Leo Girardi John Gizis Jacob Hogan Michael A. C. Johnson James Lauroesch Michael Liu Tom Maccarone Peregrine McGehee Dante Minniti Koji Mukai C. Tanner Murphey Alexandre Roman-Lopez Simone Scaringi Jennifer Sobeck Kirill Sokolovsky Xilu Wang

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keywords planebulgecoveragegalacticlsstsciencewide-fast-deepaddressed

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We argue that the exclusion of the Galactic Plane and Bulge from the uniform wide-fast-deep (WFD) LSST survey cadence is fundamentally inconsistent with two of the main science drivers of LSST: Mapping the Milky Way and Exploring the Transient Optical Sky. We outline the philosophical basis for this claim and then describe a number of important science goals that can only be addressed by WFD-like coverage of the Plane and Bulge.

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The Plane's The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane and Bulge

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