Technical
LAST technical overview is in Ofek et al. (2023a), while its science goals are in Ben-Ami et al. (2023).
The LAST pipeline is described in Ofek et al. (2023b), while a live version of the LAST pipeline paper that is being updated when the pipeline is changed is available here.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| # of telescopes | 48 |
| Telescope diameter | 28 cm |
| Equivalent collecting area | 1.9 m |
| Field of view per telescope | 7.4 deg2 |
| Array field of view | 355 deg2 |
| Focal length | 620 mm |
| Focal ratio | 2.2 |
| Pixel scale | 1.25 arcsec/pix |
| Pixel size | 3.67 micron |
| Detector size | 36x24 mm |
| Pixels per camera | 61 million |
| Pixels per array | 2.93 billion |
| Readout noise | 1.5 e |
| Bp 5-sigma limiting mag (20s) | 19.6 |
| Bp 5-sigma limiting mag (20x20s) | 21.0 |
| Longitude (WGS84) | 35.0407331 deg E |
| Latitude (WGS84) | 30.0529838 deg N |
| Height (WGS84) | 415m |