A Smart and Colorful Cadence for the LSST Wide Fast Deep Survey: Maximizing TDE Science

Understand

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are rare, 10^(-7)/yr/Mpc^3 (Hung et al.

• 2018), yet the large survey volume of LSST implies a very large detection rate of 200/yr/(1000 deg^2) (van Velzen et al.
• 2011), a factor of 250 increase in the detection capability of the current generation of optical synoptic surveys, e.g.
• ZTF, ASAS-SN, Pan-STARRS, and ATLAS.