# Initial Estimates on the Performance of the $LSST$ on the Detection of Eclipsing Binaries

## TL;DR

This study estimates LSST's ability to detect eclipsing binaries by simulating LSST-like light curves from Kepler data and assessing period recovery success, finding a 71% overall success rate that declines for longer periods.

## Contribution

It introduces a simulation-based method to evaluate LSST's binary detection performance using Kepler data and standard analysis routines.

## Key findings

- 71% success rate in binary period recovery
- Recovery success drops below 50% for periods over 10 days
- Performance varies with binary period length

## Abstract

In this work we quantify the performance of $LSST$ on the detection of eclipsing binaries. We use $Kepler$ observed binaries to create a large sample of simulated pseudo-$LSST$ binary light curves. From these light curves, we attempt to recover the known binary signal. The success rate of period recovery from the pseudo-$LSST$ light curves is indicative of $LSST$'s expected performance. Using an off-the-shelf Analysis of Variance (AoV) routine, we successfully recover 71% of the targets in our sample. We examine how the binary period impacts recovery success and see that for periods longer than 10~days the chance of successful binary recovery drops below 50%.