Title: Transiting Planets with LSST III: Detection Rate per Year of Operation,
Abstract: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will generate light curves for
approximately 1 billion stars. Our previous work has demonstrated that, by the
end of the LSST 10 year mission, large numbers of transiting exoplanetary
systems could be recovered using the LSST "deep drilling" cadence. Here we
extend our previous work to examine how the recoverability of transiting
planets over a range of orbital periods and radii evolves per year of LSST
operation. As specific example systems we consider hot Jupiters orbiting
solar-type stars and hot Neptunes orbiting K-Dwarfs at distances from Earth of
several kpc, as well as super-Earths orbiting nearby low-mass M-dwarfs. The
detection of transiting planets increases steadily with the accumulation of
data over time, generally becoming large (greater than 10 percent) after 4 - 6
years of operation. However, we also find that short-period (less than 2 day)
hot Jupiters orbiting G-dwarfs and hot Neptunes orbiting K-dwarfs can already
be discovered within the first 1 - 2 years of LSST operation.