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Tim Jenness
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73 papers
We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2026-04-09
Colin Orion Chandler , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Mario Jurić , Devanshi Singh , Henry H. Hsieh , Ian Sullivan , R. Lynne Jones , Jacob A. Kurlander , Dmitrii Vavilov , Siegfried Eggl , Matthew Holman , Federica Spoto , Megan E. Schwamb , Lauren A. MacArthur , Rahil Makadia , Marco Micheli , Aren Heinze , Eric J. Christensen , Wilson Beebe , Aaron Roodman , Kian-Tat Lim , Tim Jenness , James Bosch , Brianna M. Smart , Eric Bellm , Sean MacBride , Meredith L. Rawls , Sarah Greenstreet , Colin Slater , Željko Ivezić , Robert D. Blum , Andrew Connolly , Gregory Daues , Michelle Gower , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Michele T. Bannister , Luke Dones , Rosemary C. Dorsey , Davide Farnocchia , Wesley C. Fraser , John C. Forbes , Cesar Fuentes , Carrie E. Holt , Laura Inno , Geraint H. Jones , Matthew M. Knight , Chris J. Lintott , Tim Lister , Robert Lupton , Mark Jesus M. Magbanua , Renu Malhotra , Beatrice E. A. Mueller , Joseph Murtagh , Nitya Pandey , William T. Reach , Nalin H. Samarasinha , Darryl Z. Seligman , Colin Snodgrass , Michael Solontoi , Gyula M. Szabó , Peter Vereš , Ellie White , Maria Womack , Leslie A. Young , Russ Allbery , Shreya Anand , Roberto Armellin , Éric Aubourg , Chrysa Avdellidou , Farrukh Azfar , James Bauer , Keith Bechtol , Valerie Becker , Matthew Belyakov , Susan D. Benecchi , Ivano Bertini , Dennis Bodewits , Patricia Boeshaar , Bryce T. Bolin , Maitrayee Bose , Alexandre Boucaud , Rodrigo C. Boufleur , Dominique Boutigny , Andrew Bradshaw , Felipe Braga-Ribas , Johan Bregeon , Laura E. Buchanan , Daniel Calabrese , J. I. B. Camargo , Neven Caplar , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Benoit Carry , Juan Pablo Carvajal , Ross Ceballo , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Yumi Choi , Céline Combet , Luiz da Costa , Preeti Cowan , John Franklin Crenshaw , Steve Croft , Matija Ćuk , Philip N. Daly , Filippo D'Ammando , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , James R. A. Davenport , Tansu Daylan , Jennifer Delgado , Stephanie J. H. Deppe , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix , Peter E. Doherty , Abbie Donaldson , Holger Drass , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Frossie Economou , Marielle R. Eduardo , Ioana Sotuela Elorriaga , Anthony Englert , Kevin Fanning , Grigori Fedorets , Peter S. Ferguson , Maryann Benny Fernandes , Agnès Ferté , Merlin Fisher-Levine , Mark L Freytag , Maxwell K. Frissell , Marco Fulle , Poshak Gandhi , John Gates , David W. Gerdes , Alex R. Gibbs , A. Fraser Gillan , Massimiliano Giordano Orsini , T. Glanzman , Iain Goodenow , Altair Ramos Gomes-Júnior , Miranda R. Gorsuch , Mikael Granvik , Wen Guan , Leanne P. Guy , Mark Hammergren , Andrew Hanushevsky , Fabio Hernandez , Ǎdis Herrold , Daniel Hestroffer , Joshua Hoblitt , Matthew J. Hopkins , Simone Ieva , Patrick Ingraham , David H. Irving , Buell T. Jannuzi , M. James Jee , David Jimenez , Claire Juramy , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Edward Karavakis , JJ Kavelaars , Kshitija Kelkar , Michael S. P. Kelley , Lee S. Kelvin , Ivan Kotov , Alec Koumjian , Gábor Kovács , K. Simon Krughoff , Agnieszka Kryszczyńska , Petr Kubánek , Craig Lage , Travis J. Lange , Pierre-François Léget , Laurent Le Guillou , Benjamin Levine , W. Garrett Levine , Zhuofu , Li , Shuang Liang , Javier Licandro , Hsing Wen Lin , Carey Lisse , Nate B. Lust , Ryan R. Lyttle , Ashish A. Mahabal , Max Mahlke , Gabriele Mainetti , Rachel Mandelbaum , Steven J. Margheim , Giuliano Margoti , Phil Marshall , Dušan Marčeta , Guillem Megias Homar , Mario D. Melita , Felipe Menanteau , Joshua Meyers , Dave Mills , Marc Moniez , C. A. L. Morales Marín , Naomi Morato , Surhud More , Christopher B. Morrison , Kris Mortensen , Youssef Moulane , Karlo Mrakovčić , Fritz Mueller , Marco A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Homer Neal , F. M. Newcomer , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Paul O'Connor , Drew Oldag , William J. Oldroyd , William O'Mullane , Cyrielle Opitom , Dagmara Oszkiewicz , Gary L. Page , Jack Patterson , Maria T Patterson , Matthew J. Payne , Eske M. Pedersen , Julien Peloton , Chrystian Luciano Pereira , John R. Peterson , Stephen R. Pietrowicz , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Edyta Podlewska-Gaca , Daniel Polin , Rebekah Polen , Hannah Mary Margaret Pollek , Yongqiang Qiu , Bruno Quint , Markus Rabus , Darin Ragozzine , Jayadev Rajagopal , Arianna Ranabhat , Kevin Reil , Tiago Ribeiro , Malena Rice , Stephen T. Ridgway , Steven M. Ritz , Andrew S. Rivkin , James E. Robinson , Agata Rożek , Eli Rykoff , Luis E. Salazar Manzano , Andrei Salnikov , Bruno O. Sánchez , David Sanmartim , Gal Sarid , Charles A. Schambeau , Rafe H. Schindler , Samuel J. Schmidt , German Schumacher , Theo Schutt , Daniel Scolnic , Robert Seaman , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Jacqueline Seron , Richard A. Shaw , Alysha Shugart , Jonathan Sick , Jaladh Singhal , Amir Siraj , Michael C. Sitarz , Shahram Sobhani , Christine Soldahl , Dallin Spencer , Brian Stalder , Steven Stetzler , Alan Strauss , Christopher W. Stubbs , Krzysztof L. Suberlak , Adam Snyder , John D. Swinbank , László Szigeti , Michael Tauraso , Dan S. Taranu , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Adam Thornton , Luca Tonietti , Laura Toribio San Cipriano , David E. Trilling , Chadwick A. Trujillo , Te-Wei Tsai , Douglas L. Tucker , Max Turri , Tony Tyson , Elana K. Urbach , Wouter van Reeven , Antonia Sierra Villarreal , Stelios Voutsinas , Christopher W. Walter , Yuankun , Wang , Charlotte Ward , Michael Warner , Maxine West , Ian Wong , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Emerson Whittaker , Bin Yang , Quanzhi Ye , Peter Yoachim , R. Zanmar Sanchez , Jinshuo Zhang , Conghao Zhou
We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detection catalogs, and ancillary data products. DP1 is based on…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2026-03-26
Vera C Rubin Observatory Team , Tatiana Acero Cuellar , Emily Acosta , Christina L Adair , Prakruth Adari , Jennifer K Adelman McCarthy , Anastasia Alexov , Russ Allbery , Robyn Allsman , Yusra AlSayyad , Jhonatan Amado , Nathan Amouroux , Pierre Antilogus , Alexis Aracena Alcayaga , Gonzalo Aravena Rojas , Claudio H Araya Cortes , Eric Aubourg , Tim S Axelrod , John Banovetz , Carlos Barria , Amanda E Bauer , Brian J Bauman , Ellen Bechtol , Keith Bechtol , Andrew C Becker , Valerie R Becker , Mark G Beckett , Eric C Bellm , Pedro H Bernardinelli , Federica Bettina Bianco , Robert D Blum , Joanne Bogart , Adam Bolton , Michael T Booth , James F Bosch , Alexandre Boucaud , Dominique Boutigny , Robert A Bovill , Andrew Bradshaw , Johan Bregeon , Massimo Brescia , Brian J Brondel , Alexander Broughton , Audrey Budlong , Dimitri Buffat , Rodolfo Canestrari , Neven Caplar , Jeffrey L Carlin , Ross Ceballo , Colin Orion Chandler , Chihway Chang , Glenaver Charles Emerson , Hsin Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Yumi Choi , Eric J Christensen , Charles F Claver , Andy W Clements , Joseph J Cockrum , Johann Cohen Tanugi , Franco Colleoni , Celine Combet , Andrew J Connolly , Julio Eduardo Constanzo Cordova , Hans E Contreras , John Franklin Crenshaw , Sylvie Dagoret Campagne , Scott F Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , Erik Dennihy , Stephanie J H Deppe , Seth W Digel , Peter E Doherty , Cyrille Doux , Alex Drlica Wagner , Gregory P Dubois Felsmann , Frossie Economou , Orion Eiger , Lukas Eisert , Alan M Eisner , Anthony Englert , Baden Erb , Juan A Fabrega , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Angelo Fausti Neto , Peter S Ferguson , Agnes Ferte , Krzysztof Findeisen , Merlin Fisher Levine , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Michael D Foss , Dominique Fouchez , Dan C Fuchs , Shenming Fu , Emmanuel Gangler , Igor Gaponenko , Julen Garcia , John H Gates , Ranpal K Gill , Enrico Giro , Thomas Glanzman , Robinson Godoy , Iain Goodenow , Miranda R Gorsuch , Michelle Gower , Melissa L Graham , Mikael Granvik , Sarah Greenstreet , Wen Guan , Thibault Guillemin , Leanne P Guy , Diane Hascall , Patrick A Hascall , Aren Nathaniel Heinze , Fabio Hernandez , Kenneth Herner , Ardis Herrold , Clare R Higgs , Joshua Hoblitt , Erin Leigh Howard , Minhee Hyun , Amanda Ibsen , Patrick Ingraham , David H Irving , Zeljko Ivezic , Suzanne H Jacoby , Buell T Jannuzi , Sreevani Jarugula , M James Jee , Tim Jenness , Toby C Jennings , Andrea Jeremie , Garrett Jernigan , David Jimenez Mejias , Anthony S Johnson , R Lynne Jones , Roger William Lewis Jones , Claire Juramy Gilles , Mario Juric , Steven M Kahn , J Bryce Kalmbach , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Jeffrey P Kantor , Edward Karavakis , Kshitija Kelkar , Lee S Kelvin , Scot J Kleinman , Ivan V Kotov , Gabor Kovacs , Mikolaj Kowalik , Victor L Krabbendam , K Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubanek , Jacob A Kurlander , Mile Kusulja , Craig S Lage , Paulo J A Lago , Katherine Laliotis , Travis Lange , Didier Laporte , Ryan M Lau , Juan Carlos Lazarte , Quentin Le Boulch , Pierre Francois Leget , Laurent Le Guillou , Benjamin Levine , Ming Liang , Shuang Liang , Kian Tat Lim , Anja von der Linden , Huan Lin , Margaux Lopez , Juan J Lopez Toro , Peter Love , Robert H Lupton , Nate B Lust , Lauren A MacArthur , Sean Patrick MacBride , Greg M Madejski , Gabriele Mainetti , Steven J Margheim , Thomas W Markiewicz , Phil Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Guido Maulen , Sidney Mau , Morgan May , Jeremy McCormick , David McKay , Robert McKercher , Guillem Megias Homar , Aaron M Meisner , Felipe Menanteau , Heather R Mentzer , Kristen Metzger , Joshua E Meyers , Michelle Miller , David J Mills , Joachim Moeyens , Marc Moniez , Fred E Moolekamp , C A L Morales Marin , Fritz Mueller , James R Mullaney , Freddy Munoz Arancibia , Kate Napier , Homer Neal , Eric H Neilsen , Jeremy Neveu , Timothy Noble , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Knut Olsen , William OMullane , Dmitry Onoprienko , Marco Oriunno , Shawn Osier , Russell E Owen , Aashay Pai , John K Parejko , Hye Yun Park , James B Parsons , Maria T Patterson , Marina S Pavlovic , Karla Pena Ramirez , John R Peterson , Stephen R Pietrowicz , Andres A Plazas Malagon , Rebekah Polen , Hannah Mary Margaret Pollek , Paul A Price , Bruno C Quint , Jose Miguel Quintero Marin , Markus Rabus , Benjamin Racine , Veljko Radeka , Manon Ramel , Arianna Ranabhat , Andrew P Rasmussen , David A Rathfelder , Meredith L Rawls , Sophie L Reed , Kevin A Reil , David J Reiss , Michael A Reuter , Tiago Ribeiro , Mickael Rigault , Vincent J Riot , Steven M Ritz , Mario F Rivera Rivera , Brant E Robertson , William Roby , Gabriele Rodeghiero , Aaron Roodman , Luca Rosignoli , Cecile Roucelle , Matthew R Rumore , Stefano Russo , Eli S Rykoff , Andrei Salnikov , Bruno O Sanchez , David Sanmartim , Clare Saunders , Rafe H Schindler , Samuel J Schmidt , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Brian Selvy , Edgard Esteban Sepulveda Valenzuela , Gonzalo Seriche , Jacqueline C Seron Navarrete , Ignacio Sevilla Noarbe , Alysha B Shugart , Jonathan Sick , Cristian Silva , Mathew C Sims , Jaladh Singhal , Kevin Benjamin Siruno , Colin T Slater , Brianna M Smart , Adam Snyder , Christine Soldahl , Ioana Sotuela Elorriaga , Brian Stalder , Hernan Stockebrand , Alan L Strauss , Michael A Strauss , Krzysztof Suberlak , Ian S Sullivan , John D Swinbank , Diego Tapia , Alessio Taranto , Dan S Taranu , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Adam J Thornton , Roberto Tighe , Laura Toribio San Cipriano , Te Wei Tsai , Douglas L Tucker , Max Turri , J Anthony Tyson , Elana K Urbach , Yousuke Utsumi , Brian Van Klaveren , Wouter van Reeven , Peter Anthony Vaucher , Paulina Venegas , Aprajita Verma , Antonia Sierra Villarreal , Stelios Voutsinas , Christopher W Walter , Yuankun David Wang , Christopher Z Waters , Christina C Williams , Beth Willman , Matthias Wittgen , W M Wood Vasey , Wei Yang , Zhaoyu Yang , Brian P Yanny , Peter Yoachim , Tianqing Zhang , Conghao Zhou , Danica Zilkova
We present SLIDE, a pipeline that enables transient discovery in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), using archival images from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) as templates for difference…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-11-11
Yize Dong , Kaylee de Soto , V. Ashley Villar , Anya Nugent , Alex Gagliano , K. Azalee Bostroem , Anastasia Alexov , Éric Aubourg , Farrukh Azfar , Alexandre Boucaud , Andrew Bradshaw , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne , Phil N. Daly , Felipe Daruich , Peter E. Doherty , Holger Drass , Orion Eiger , Leanne P. Guy , Patrick A. Hascall , Željko Ivezić , Fabrice Jammes , M. James Jee , Tim Jenness , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Lee S. Kelvin , Ivan V. Kotov , Gábor Kovács , Laurent Le Guillou , Shuang Liang , Mostafa Lutfi , Morgan May , Guillem Megias Homar , Marc Moniez , Freddy Muñoz Arancibia , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Hye Yun Park , John R. Peterson , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Daniel Polin , Bruno C. Quint , Tiago Ribeiro , Vincent J. Riot , Cécile Roucelle , Bruno O. Sánchez , David Sanmartim , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Richard A. Shaw , Alysha Shugart , Ioana Sotuela Elorriaga , Krzysztof Suberlak , John D. Swinbank , Sandrine Thomas , J. Anthony Tyson , Wouter van Reeven , Charlotte Ward , Christopher Z. Waters , Oliver Wiecha , W. M. Wood-Vasey
We present a catalogue of dense cores identified in James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Gould Belt Survey SCUBA-2 observations of nearby star-forming clouds. We identified 2257 dense cores using the getsources algorithm, of which 59% are…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2025-10-29
Kate Pattle , James Di Francesco , Jenny Hatchell , Helen Kirk , Sarah Sadavoy , Derek Ward-Thompson , Doug Johnstone , Sammohith Nittala , Ronan Kerr , Jared Keown , Harold Butner , Simon Coudé , Malcolm Currie , Rachel Friesen , Tim Jenness , Lewis Knee , Glenn White
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently released Data Preview 1 (DP1) in advance of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will enable boundless discoveries in time-domain astronomy over the next ten years. DP1 provides…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-30
Konstantin Malanchev , Melissa DeLucchi , Neven Caplar , Alex I. Malz , Anastasia Alexov , Eric Aubourg , Amanda E Bauer , Wilson Beebe , Eric C. Bellm , Robert David Blum , Doug Branton , Sandro Campos , Daniel Calabrese , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Yumi Choi , Andrew Connolly , Mi Dai , Philip N. Daly , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Francisco Delgado , Holger Drass , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Emmanuel Gangler , Leanne P. Guy , Željko Ivezić , Fabrice Jammes , Buell T. Jannuzi , Tim Jenness , David Jimenez , Derek T. Jones , Mario Jurić , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Jeremy Kubica , Laurent Le Guillou , Olivia Lynn , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Moniez , Christopher B. Morrison , Sean McGuire , Ian E. Ordenes , Maria T. Patterson , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Yongqiang Qiu , Bruno Quint , Veljko Radeka , Wouter van Reeven , Vincent J. Riot , Bruno O. Sánchez , David Sanmartim , Jacques Sebag , Alysha Shugart , Ian S. Sullivan , Dan S. Taranu , Elana K. Urbach , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Tianqing Zhang
The sky images captured nightly by the camera on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's telescope will be processed across facilities on three continents. Data acquisition will occur at the observatory's location on Cerro Pach\'{o}n in the Andes…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-18
Fabio Hernandez , Mark G. Beckett , Andrew Hanushevsky , Tim Jenness , Kian-Tat Lim , Peter Love , Timothy Noble , Stephen R. Pietrowicz , Wei Yang
We present 450$\mu$m and 850$\mu$m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) observations of the Corona Australis (CrA) molecular cloud taken as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBLS). We present a catalogue of 39 starless and…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2025-01-22
Kate Pattle , David Bresnahan , Derek Ward-Thompson , Helen Kirk , Jason M. Kirk , David S. Berry , Hannah Broekhoven-Fiene , Jenny Hatchell , Tim Jenness , Doug Johnstone , J. C. Mottram , Ana Duarte-Cabral , James Di Francesco , M. R. Hogerheijde , Pierre Bastien , Harold Butner , Michael Chen , Antonio Chrysostomou , Simon Coudé , Malcolm J. Currie , C. J. Davis , Emily Drabek-Maunder , M. Fich , J. Fiege , Per Friberg , Rachel Friesen , Gary A. Fuller , Sarah Graves , Jane Greaves , Wayne Holland , G. Joncas , L. B. G. Knee , Steve Mairs , Ken Marsh , Brenda C. Matthews , Gerald Moriarty-Schieven , C. Mowat , Jonathan Rawlings , B. Retter , John Richer , D. Robertson , E. Rosolowsky , Sarah Sadavoy , H. Thomas , N. Tothill , Serena Viti , G. J. White , J. Wouterloot , J. Yates , M. Zhu
The IVOA Simple Image Access version 2 protocol defines an easy way to provide community access to a collection of data. At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory we currently enable ObsTAP access to our data holdings via an ObsCore export or view…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-01-03
Tim Jenness , Stelios Voutsinas , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Andrei Salnikov
The Data Management team of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has developed a data description language and toolset, Felis, for defining the semantics and metadata of its public-facing data catalogs. Felis uses a rich Pydantic data model for…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-12-16
Jeremy McCormick , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Andrei Salnikov , Brian Van Klaveren , Tim Jenness
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will produce an unprecedented astronomical data set for studies of the deep and dynamic universe. Its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will image the entire southern sky every three to four days and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2023-12-11
Edward Karavakis , Wen Guan , Zhaoyu Yang , Tadashi Maeno , Torre Wenaus , Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy , Fernando Barreiro Megino , Kaushik De , Richard Dubois , Michelle Gower , Tim Jenness , Alexei Klimentov , Tatiana Korchuganova , Mikolaj Kowalik , Fa-Hui Lin , Paul Nilsson , Sergey Padolski , Wei Yang , Shuwei Ye
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to execute the most ambitious astronomical survey ever attempted, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Currently the final phase of construction is under way in the Chilean Andes, with the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2023-11-27
Fabio Hernandez , George Beckett , Peter Clark , Matt Doidge , Tim Jenness , Edward Karavakis , Quentin Le Boulc'h , Peter Love , Gabriele Mainetti , Timothy Noble , Brandon White , Wei Yang
The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and combining archives of data. To address this challenge, we…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2023-11-09
Michael R. Blanton , Janet D. Evans , Dara Norman , William O'Mullane , Adrian Price-Whelan , Luca Rizzi , Alberto Accomazzi , Megan Ansdell , Stephen Bailey , Paul Barrett , Steven Berukoff , Adam Bolton , Julian Borrill , Kelle Cruz , Julianne Dalcanton , Vandana Desai , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Frossie Economou , Henry Ferguson , Bryan Field , Dan Foreman-Mackey , Jaime Forero-Romero , Niall Gaffney , Kim Gillies , Matthew J. Graham , Steven Gwyn , Joseph Hennawi , Anna L. H. Hughes , Tess Jaffe , Preshanth Jagannathan , Tim Jenness , Mario Jurić , JJ Kavelaars , Kerk Kee , Jeff Kern , Anthony Kremin , Kathleen Labrie , Mark Lacy , Casey Law , Rafael Martínez-Galarza , Curtis McCully , Julie McEnery , Bryan Miller , Christopher Moriarty , August Muench , Demitri Muna , Angela Murillo , Gautham Narayan , James D. Neill , Robert Nikutta , Roopesh Ojha , Knut Olsen , John O'Meara , Ben Rusholme , Robert Seaman , Nathaniel Starkman , Martin Still , Felix Stoehr , John D. Swinbank , Peter Teuben , Ignacio Toledo , Erik Tollerud , Matthew D. Turk , James Turner , William Vacca , Joaquin Vieira , Benjamin Weaver , Benjamin Weiner , Jason Weiss , Kyle Westfall , Beth Willman , Lily Zhao
We present the Rubin Observatory system for data storage/retrieval and pipelined code execution. The layer for data storage and retrieval is named the Butler. It consists of a relational database, known as the registry, to keep track of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2023-03-07
Nate B. Lust , Tim Jenness , James F. Bosch , Andrei Salnikov , Nathan M. Pease , Michelle Gower , Mikolaj Kowalik , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Fritz Mueller , Pim Schellart
Data processing pipelines need to be executed at scales ranging from small runs up through large production data release runs resulting in millions of data products. As part of the Rubin Observatory's pipeline execution system, BPS is the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-11-30
Michelle Gower , Mikolaj Kowalik , Nate B. Lust , James F. Bosch , Tim Jenness
Starting from a description of the Rubin Observatory Data Management System Architecture, and drawing on our experience with and involvement in a range of other projects including Gaia, SDSS, UKIRT, and JCMT, we derive a series of generic…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-11-28
William O'Mullane , Frossie Economou , Kian-Tat Lim , Fritz Mueller , Tim Jenness , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Leanne P. Guy , Ian S. Sullivan , Yusra AlSayyad , John D. Swinbank , K. Simon Krughoff
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. A key element of the Astropy Project is the core package…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-09-07
The Astropy Collaboration , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Pey Lian Lim , Nicholas Earl , Nathaniel Starkman , Larry Bradley , David L. Shupe , Aarya A. Patil , Lia Corrales , C. E. Brasseur , Maximilian Nöthe , Axel Donath , Erik Tollerud , Brett M. Morris , Adam Ginsburg , Eero Vaher , Benjamin A. Weaver , James Tocknell , William Jamieson , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Thomas P. Robitaille , Bruce Merry , Matteo Bachetti , H. Moritz Günther , Thomas L. Aldcroft , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes , Anne M. Archibald , Attila Bódi , Shreyas Bapat , Geert Barentsen , Juanjo Bazán , Manish Biswas , Médéric Boquien , D. J. Burke , Daria Cara , Mihai Cara , Kyle E Conroy , Simon Conseil , Matthew W. Craig , Robert M. Cross , Kelle L. Cruz , Francesco D'Eugenio , Nadia Dencheva , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix , Jörg P. Dietrich , Arthur Davis Eigenbrot , Thomas Erben , Leonardo Ferreira , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Ryan Fox , Nabil Freij , Suyog Garg , Robel Geda , Lauren Glattly , Yash Gondhalekar , Karl D. Gordon , David Grant , Perry Greenfield , Austen M. Groener , Steve Guest , Sebastian Gurovich , Rasmus Handberg , Akeem Hart , Zac Hatfield-Dodds , Derek Homeier , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Tim Jenness , Craig K. Jones , Prajwel Joseph , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Emir Karamehmetoglu , Mikołaj Kałuszyński , Michael S. P. Kelley , Nicholas Kern , Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf , Eric W. Koch , Shankar Kulumani , Antony Lee , Chun Ly , Zhiyuan Ma , Conor MacBride , Jakob M. Maljaars , Demitri Muna , N. A. Murphy , Henrik Norman , Richard O'Steen , Kyle A. Oman , Camilla Pacifici , Sergio Pascual , J. Pascual-Granado , Rohit R. Patil , Gabriel I Perren , Timothy E. Pickering , Tanuj Rastogi , Benjamin R. Roulston , Daniel F Ryan , Eli S. Rykoff , Jose Sabater , Parikshit Sakurikar , Jesús Salgado , Aniket Sanghi , Nicholas Saunders , Volodymyr Savchenko , Ludwig Schwardt , Michael Seifert-Eckert , Albert Y. Shih , Anany Shrey Jain , Gyanendra Shukla , Jonathan Sick , Chris Simpson , Sudheesh Singanamalla , Leo P. Singer , Jaladh Singhal , Manodeep Sinha , Brigitta M. Sipőcz , Lee R. Spitler , David Stansby , Ole Streicher , Jani Šumak , John D. Swinbank , Dan S. Taranu , Nikita Tewary , Grant R. Tremblay , Miguel de Val-Borro , Samuel J. Van Kooten , Zlatan Vasović , Shresth Verma , José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso , Peter K. G. Williams , Tom J. Wilson , Benjamin Winkel , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Rui Xue , Peter Yoachim , Chen ZHANG , Andrea Zonca
The Rubin Observatory's Data Butler is designed to allow data file location and file formats to be abstracted away from the people writing the science pipeline algorithms. The Butler works in conjunction with the workflow graph builder to…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-07-01
Tim Jenness , James F. Bosch , Nate B. Lust , Nathan M. Pease , Michelle Gower , Mikolaj Kowalik , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Fritz Mueller , Pim Schellart
We describe Rubin Observatory's experience with offering a data access facility (and associated services including our Science Platform) deployed on Google Cloud infrastructure as part of our pre-Operations Data Preview program.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-12-01
William O'Mullane , Frossie Economou , Flora Huang , Dan Speck , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Melissa L. Graham , Russ Allbery , Christine Banek , Jonathan Sick , Adam J. Thornton , Jess Masciarelli , Kian-Tat Lim , Fritz Mueller , Sergey Padolski , Tim Jenness , K. Simon Krughoff , Michelle Gower , Leanne P. Guy , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, operated by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is a 10-year astronomical survey due to start operations in 2022 that will image half the sky every three nights. LSST will produce ~20TB of raw data per night…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2020-11-13
Dino Bektesevic , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Kian-Tat Lim , Todd L. Miller , Greg Thain , Tim Jenness , James Bosch , Andrei Salnikov , Andrew Connolly
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) held its bi-annual Interoperability Meetings in May 2019, and in October 2019 following the ADASS XXIX conference. We provide a brief report on the status of the IVOA and the activities…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-12-04
Mark A. Allen , Patrick Dowler , Janet D. Evans , Chenzhou Cui , Tim Jenness , Bruno Merin , G. Bruce Berriman , J. J. Kavelaars