LSST Data Products and Opportunities for Small Body Science

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8m-class observatory currently under construction on Cerro Pachón, Chile. Over a ten-year period starting in 2022, LSST will generate the largest catalog of Solar System objects to date. This will be made possible by LSST's 9.6 square degree field of view, a 3.2 Gigapixel camera and a rapid observational cadence allowing it to cover the entire visible sky every 3-4 days to typical single-exposure depths of r= 24.5 mag. LSST will employ a suite of specialized software pipelines to enable both detection (rapid identification, alerting, and orbit determination) and characterization (delivering information such as color and variability). Solar System processing will occur on three distinct cadences. In near real-time, trailed moving objects will be identified and alerts sent to the community within minutes of observation. At the end of each night of observing, a linking algorithm …