REVIEW article
Front. Astron. Space Sci.
Sec. Astrobiology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspas.2025.1594485
Multiscale Astrobiology with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
- 3Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (DOE), Batavia, Illinois, United States
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) presents an unprecedented opportunity to advance the search for astrobiologically relevant data across diverse astronomical environments. Through its extensive imaging capabilities, LSST will enhance our inventory of Solar System objects and assess their potential astrobiological conditions. Beyond the Solar System, LSST will survey billions of stars, contributing to the detection of exoplanets, characterizing planetary atmospheres at a zeroth-order level, identifying transient phenomena, and exploring conditions within habitable zones. In this paper, we highlight LSST's unique contribution to astrobiology, complementing other missions and expanding the search for life beyond Earth in the coming decades.
Keywords: Time-domain surveys, Astrobiology, Exoplanet biosignatures, Technosignatures detection, survey-methods:statistical
Received: 16 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Andjelka Branislav Kovacevic, Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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