The LSST AGN Science Collaboration: European Connections and Early Science

The LSST AGN Science Collaboration: Its European Connections and Early Science Plans

William N. Brandt (Penn State University), Matthew J. Temple (Durham University), The LSST AGN Science Collaboration

The LSST Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Science Collaboration (SC), currently comprising about 280 members worldwide (with more than 75 European members), aims to lead many of the large-scale LSST investigations of growing supermassive black holes in AGNs. I will briefly summarize the membership and organization of the AGN SC. I will then highlight its recent and ongoing activities, including gathering and analyzing preparatory data sets (e.g., in the Deep-Drilling Fields) to enable impactful early science, contributing to survey cadence optimization, forecasting science results with simulations, serving on key working groups, and engaging in outreach to both the scientific community and general public. I will emphasize the AGN SC's early science plans and describe how interested members of the European and global astronomical community can become involved.