Survey Cadence Optimization Committee’s Phase 3 Recommendations

Abstract

We present the final planned comprehensive recommendation for Rubin Observatory the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) survey strategy ahead of the start of LSST. This recommendation is the product of a many-years-long iterative process where community recommendations to maximize the scientific impact of LSST across domains of astrophysics were reviewed, synthesized, aggregated, and merged to define the overall plan for 10 years of LSST observations. The current recommendation builds on Phase 1 () and Phase 2 recommendations () and, together, they define a 10-year plan for observing. Here we answer questions left open in , refine additional survey details, and describe the scope of future activities of the SCOC.