9–10 Apr 2026
Monte Mario
Europe/Rome timezone

The Timedomes project: building on the VST legacy in the time domain

9 Apr 2026, 12:30
20m
Sala Cimmino (Monte Mario)

Sala Cimmino

Monte Mario

Via del Parco Mellini, 84, 00136 Roma

Speaker

Prof. Maurizio Paolillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Description

I will present the status of the Timedomes project, started in 2021 and proposed as an in-kind contribution to the LSST collaboration. The program is targeting 4 sq.deg. of four of the LSST DDFs in two bands with 8 or more epochs each semester, in order to improve the temporal coverage of the fields up to the beginning of LSST observations. These data, complemented by all archival VST observations dating back to 2011, are allowing to build a legacy dataset of images and light curves to extend the DDF monitoring effort up to 20 years, with the aim of studying AGN properties and demographics, transient sources as well as provide deep reference templates.

Author

Prof. Maurizio Paolillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

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