  We have performed a detailed survey simulation of the LSST performance with
regards to near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the project's current baseline
cadence. The survey shows that if the project is able to reliably generate
linked sets of positions and times (a so-called "tracklet") using two
detections of a given object per night and can link these tracklets into a
track with a minimum of 3 tracklets covering more than a ~12 day length-of-arc,
they would be able to discover 62% of the potentially hazardous asteroids
(PHAs) larger than 140 m in its projected 10 year survey lifetime. This
completeness would be reduced to 58% if the project is unable to implement a
pipeline using the two detection cadence and has to adopt the four detection
cadence more commonly used by existing NEO surveys. When including the
estimated performance from the current operating surveys, assuming these would
continue running until the start of LSST and perhaps beyond, the completeness
fraction for PHAs larger than 140m would be 73% for the baseline cadence and
71% for the four detection cadence. This result is a lower than the estimate of
Ivezic et al. (2007,2014); however it is comparable to that of Jones et al.
(2016) who show completeness ~70$%. We also show that the traditional method of
using absolute magnitude H < 22 mag as a proxy for the population with
diameters larger than 140m results in completeness values that are too high by
~5%. Our simulation makes use of the most recent models of the physical and
orbital properties of the NEO populations, as well as simulated cadences and
telescope performance estimates provided by LSST. We further show that while
neither LSST nor a space-based IR platform like NEOCam individually can
complete the survey for 140m diameter NEOs, the combination of these systems
can achieve that goal after a decade of observation.
