The Fast Transient Foreground Fog of LSST

arXiv:2610.09394 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• European Space Agency — 2× in this paper
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Flares from Space Debris in LSST Images
• Second-timescale Glints from Satellites and Space Debris Detected with Tomo-e Gozen
• Expected Impact of Glints from Space Debris in the LSST

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