Models and Simulations for the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
Models and Simulations for the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
We describe the simulated data sample for the "Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge" (PLAsTiCC), a publicly available challenge to classify transient and variable events that will be observed by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a new facility expected to start in the early 2020s. The challenge was …