Title:
Observing TDEs in the era of LSST

Abstract:
The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will 
observe ~18 000 square degrees of the Southern sky and 
is expected to discover thousands of transients every night due to 
its large coverage of the sky and its observing strategy. 
Being an exceptional transient hunter, we expect the LSST 
to increase the current observed sample of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) 
by a factor of ~1000 in 10 years of survey duration. 
TDEs are one of the most promising phenomena in the study of 
dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe, 
and if their observed optical light curves are sampled frequently enough, 
TDEs can serve as indicators of SMBH mass. We present our simulations of 
TDE observations with the LSST, the resulting SMBH mass distributions of 
observed TDEs, and the efficiency of different proposed observing strategies of 
the LSST in finding these rare transients.