Inventorying the Solar System with LSST

Detection Limits (right) Moving objects with diameters as small as 200m in the Main Belt and Pluto-sized objects out to 200 AU can be detected in individual images. Specialized ‘deep drilling’ observing sequences will detect KBOs only tens of kilometers in diameter LSST Detections (left) Extrapolating from current models of solar system populations and including the resul ts of the Operations Simulation, we expect LSST will detect approximately 100,000 NEOs, almost 6 million Main bel t asteroids, around 300,000 Jupiter Trojans, and almost 50,000 TNOs. Inventorying the Solar System with LSST R. Lynne Jones1, S. R. Chesley2, P. A. Abell3, M. E. Brown4, J. Durech5, Y. R. Fernandez6, A. W. Harris7, M. J. Holman8, Z. Ivezic1, R. Jedicke9, M. Kaasaleinen10, N. A. Kaib1, Z. Knezevic11, A. Milani12, A. Parker13, S. T. Ridgway14, D. E. Trilling15, B. Vrsnak16, LSST Solar System Science Collaboration