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Strong Lensing Science Collaboration input to the on-sky commissioning of the Vera Rubin Observatory
We present the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration's (SLSC) recommended observing targets for the science verification and science validation phases of commissioning. Our recommendations have been developed in collaboration with the Dark…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-11-18
Graham P. Smith , Timo Anguita , Simon Birrer , Paul L. Schechter , Aprajita Verma , Tom Collett , Frederic Courbin , Brenda Frye , Raphael Gavazzi , Cameron Lemon , Anupreeta More , Dan Ryczanowski , Sherry H. Suyu
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will image billions of astronomical objects in the wide-fast-deep primary survey and in a set of minisurveys including intensive observations of a group of deep drilling…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
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Philippe Gris , Humna Awan , Matthew R. Becker , Huan Lin , Eric Gawiser , Saurabh W. Jha , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y over the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2020-09-17
Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration , R. Lynne Jones , Michelle T. Bannister , Bryce T. Bolin , Colin Orion Chandler , Steven R. Chesley , Siegfried Eggl , Sarah Greenstreet , Timothy R. Holt , Henry H. Hsieh , Zeljko Ivezić , Mario Jurić , Michael S. P. Kelley , Matthew M. Knight , Renu Malhotra , William J. Oldroyd , Gal Sarid , Megan E. Schwamb , Colin Snodgrass , Michael Solontoi , David E. Trilling
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce unprecedented volumes of heterogeneous astronomical data (images, catalogs, and alerts) that challenge traditional analysis pipelines. The LSST Dark Energy…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2026-01-22
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Eric Aubourg , Camille Avestruz , Matthew R. Becker , Biswajit Biswas , Rahul Biswas , Boris Bolliet , Adam S. Bolton , Clecio R. Bom , Raphaël Bonnet-Guerrini , Alexandre Boucaud , Jean-Eric Campagne , Chihway Chang , Aleksandra Ćiprijanović , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Michael W. Coughlin , John Franklin Crenshaw , Juan C. Cuevas-Tello , Juan de Vicente , Seth W. Digel , Steven Dillmann , Mariano Javier de León Dominguez Romero , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Sydney Erickson , Alexander T. Gagliano , Christos Georgiou , Aritra Ghosh , Matthew Grayling , Kirill A. Grishin , Alan Heavens , Lindsay R. House , Mustapha Ishak , Wassim Kabalan , Arun Kannawadi , François Lanusse , C. Danielle Leonard , Pierre-François Léget , Michelle Lochner , Yao-Yuan Mao , Peter Melchior , Grant Merz , Martin Millon , Anais Möller , Gautham Narayan , Yuuki Omori , Hiranya Peiris , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Nesar Ramachandra , Benjamin Remy , Cécile Roucelle , Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero , Stefan Schuldt , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Ved G. Shah , Tjitske Starkenburg , Stephen Thorp , Laura Toribio San Cipriano , Tilman Tröster , Roberto Trotta , Padma Venkatraman , Amanda Wasserman , Tim White , Justine Zeghal , Tianqing Zhang , Yuanyuan Zhang
We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-07-22
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Bela Abolfathi , David Alonso , Robert Armstrong , Éric Aubourg , Humna Awan , Yadu N. Babuji , Franz Erik Bauer , Rachel Bean , George Beckett , Rahul Biswas , Joanne R. Bogart , Dominique Boutigny , Kyle Chard , James Chiang , Chuck F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Céline Combet , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Seth W. Digel , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Richard Dubois , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , Thomas Glanzman , Phillipe Gris , Salman Habib , Andrew P. Hearin , Katrin Heitmann , Fabio Hernandez , Renée Hložek , Joseph Hollowed , Mustapha Ishak , Željko Ivezić , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Steven M. Kahn , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Heather M. Kelly , Eve Kovacs , Danila Korytov , K. Simon Krughoff , Craig S. Lage , François Lanusse , Patricia Larsen , Laurent Le Guillou , Nan Li , Emily Phillips Longley , Robert H. Lupton , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yao-Yuan Mao , Phil Marshall , Joshua E. Meyers , Marc Moniez , Christopher B. Morrison , Andrei Nomerotski , Paul O'Connor , HyeYun Park , Ji Won Park , Julien Peloton , Daniel Perrefort , James Perry , Stéphane Plaszczynski , Adrian Pope , Andrew Rasmussen , Kevin Reil , Aaron J. Roodman , Eli S. Rykoff , F. Javier Sánchez , Samuel J. Schmidt , Daniel Scolnic , Christopher W. Stubbs , J. Anthony Tyson , Thomas D. Uram , Antonia Villarreal , Christopher W. Walter , Matthew P. Wiesner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Joe Zuntz
Establishing that Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a flagship dark matter experiment is an essential pathway toward understanding the physical nature of dark matter. In the past two decades, wide-field astronomical surveys and terrestrial…
High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics
2022-03-15
Yao-Yuan Mao , Annika H. G. Peter , Susmita Adhikari , Keith Bechtol , Simeon Bird , Simon Birrer , Jonathan Blazek , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Nushkia Chamba , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Tansu Daylan , Birendra Dhanasingham , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Cora Dvorkin , Christopher Fassnacht , Eric Gawiser , Maurizio Giannotti , Vera Gluscevic , Alma Gonzalez-Morales , Renee Hlozek , M. James Jee , Stacy Kim , Akhtar Mahmood , Rachel Mandelbaum , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Marc Moniez , Ethan O. Nadler , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , J. Anthony Tyson , Risa H. Wechsler , Hai-Bo Yu , Gabrijela Zaharijas
We review the measurements of dark energy enabled by observations of the Deep Drilling Fields and the optimization of survey design for cosmological measurements. This white paper is the result of efforts by the LSST DESC Observing Strategy…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-12-04
Daniel M. Scolnic , Michelle Lochner , Phillipe Gris , Nicolas Regnault , Renée Hložek , Greg Aldering , Tarek Allam , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Jonathan Blazek , Chihway Chang , Eric Gawiser , Ariel Goobar , Isobel M. Hook , Saurabh W. Jha , Jason D. McEwen , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Eric Neilsen , Jason Rhodes , Daniel Rothchild , Ignacio Sevilla Noarbe , Anže Slosar , Peter Yoachim
Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed to conduct a multi-purpose 10-year optical survey of the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-01-05
Federica B. Bianco , Željko Ivezić , R. Lynne Jones , Melissa L. Graham , Phil Marshall , Abhijit Saha , Michael A. Strauss , Peter Yoachim , Tiago Ribeiro , Timo Anguita , Franz E. Bauer , Eric C. Bellm , Robert D. Blum , William N. Brandt , Sarah Brough , Màrcio Catelan , William I. Clarkson , Andrew J. Connolly , Eric Gawiser , John Gizis , Renee Hlozek , Sugata Kaviraj , Charles T. Liu , Michelle Lochner , Ashish A. Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peregrine McGehee , Eric H. Neilsen , Knut A. G. Olsen , Hiranya Peiris , Jason Rhodes , Gordon T. Richards , Stephen Ridgway , Megan E. Schwamb , Dan Scolnic , Ohad Shemmer , Colin T. Slater , Anže Slosar , Stephen J. Smartt , Jay Strader , Rachel Street , David E. Trilling , Aprajita Verma , A. K. Vivas , Risa H. Wechsler , Beth Willman
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 Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory is planned to begin in the Fall of 2025. The LSST survey cadence has been designed via a community-driven process regulated by the Survey Cadence Optimization Committee…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-11-08
Igor Andreoni , Raffaella Margutti , John Banovetz , Sarah Greenstreet , Claire-Alice Hebert , Tim Lister , Antonella Palmese , Silvia Piranomonte , S. J. Smartt , Graham P. Smith , Robert Stein , Tomas Ahumada , Shreya Anand , Katie Auchettl , Michele T. Bannister , Eric C. Bellm , Joshua S. Bloom , Bryce T. Bolin , Clecio R. Bom , Daniel Brethauer , Melissa J. Brucker , David A. H. Buckley , Poonam Chandra , Ryan Chornock , Eric Christensen , Jeff Cooke , Alessandra Corsi , Michael W. Coughlin , Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola , D'Ammando Filippo , Biwei Dai , S. Dhawan , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Anna Franckowiak , Andreja Gomboc , Benjamin P. Gompertz , Leanne P. Guy , Nandini Hazra , Christopher Hernandez , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Maryam Hussaini , Dina Ibrahimzade , Luca Izzo , R. Lynne Jones , Yijung Kang , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Matthew Knight , Keerthi Kunnumkai , Gavin P Lamb , Natalie LeBaron , Cassandra Lejoly , Andrew J. Levan , Sean MacBride , Franco Mallia , Alex I. Malz , Adam A. Miller , J. C. Mora , Gautham Narayan , Nayana A. J. , Matt Nicholl , Tiffany Nichols , S. R. Oates , Akshay Panayada , Fabio Ragosta , Tiago Ribeiro , Dan Ryczanowski , Nikhil Sarin , Megan E. Schwamb , Huei Sears , Darryl Z. Seligman , Ritwik Sharma , Manisha Shrestha , Simran , Michael C. Stroh , Giacomo Terreran , Aishwarya Linesh Thakur , Aum Trivedi , J. Anthony Tyson , Yousuke Utsumi , Aprajita Verma , V. Ashley Villar , Kathryn Volk , Meet J. Vyas , Amanda R. Wasserman , J. Craig Wheeler , Peter Yoachim , Angela Zegarelli , Federica Bianco
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 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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
The generation-defining Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make state-of-the-art measurements of both the static and transient universe through its Legacy Survey for Space and Time (LSST). With such capabilities, it is immensely challenging to…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2022-04-07
Michelle Lochner , Dan Scolnic , Husni Almoubayyed , Timo Anguita , Humna Awan , Eric Gawiser , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Philippe Gris , Simon Huber , Saurabh W. Jha , R. Lynne Jones , Alex G. Kim , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Tanja Petrushevska , Nicolas Regnault , Christian N. Setzer , Sherry H. Suyu , Peter Yoachim , Rahul Biswas , Tristan Blaineau , Isobel Hook , Marc Moniez , Eric Neilsen , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Rothchild , Christopher Stubbs
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) that will be carried out by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory promises to be the defining survey of the next decade, supplying unprecedented access to the night sky to static science- and…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-12-19
Boris Leistedt , Matthew R. Becker , Humna Awan , Eric Gawiser , Qianjun Hang , Renée Hložek , Saurabh W. Jha , R. Lynne Jones , Arun Kannawadi , Michelle Lochner , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jeffrey A. Newman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , Hiranya V. Peiris , Eli S. Rykoff , M. A. Troxel , Peter Yoachim
In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created a 300 deg$^2$ simulated survey as part of an effort called…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-06-18
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Bela Abolfathi , Robert Armstrong , Humna Awan , Yadu N. Babuji , Franz Erik Bauer , George Beckett , Rahul Biswas , Joanne R. Bogart , Dominique Boutigny , Kyle Chard , James Chiang , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Seth W. Digel , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Richard Dubois , Eric Gawiser , Thomas Glanzman , Salman Habib , Andrew P. Hearin , Katrin Heitmann , Fabio Hernandez , Renée Hložek , Joseph Hollowed , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Heather M. Kelly , Eve Kovacs , Danila Korytov , K. Simon Krughoff , Craig S. Lage , François Lanusse , Patricia Larsen , Nan Li , Emily Phillips Longley , Robert H. Lupton , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yao-Yuan Mao , Phil Marshall , Joshua E. Meyers , Ji Won Park , Julien Peloton , Daniel Perrefort , James Perry , Stéphane Plaszczynski , Adrian Pope , Eli S. Rykoff , F. Javier Sánchez , Samuel J. Schmidt , Thomas D. Uram , Antonia Villarreal , Christopher W. Walter , Matthew P. Wiesner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main survey. In this paper, we describe the ``DeepDrill''…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2020-12-01
M. Lacy , J. A. Surace , D. Farrah , K. Nyland , J. Afonso , W. N. Brandt , D. L. Clements , C. D. P. Lagos , C. Maraston , J. Pforr , A. Sajina , M. Sako , M. Vaccari , G. Wilson , D. R. Ballantyne , W. A. Barkhouse , R. Brunner , R. Cane , T. E. Clarke , M. Cooper , A. Cooray , G. Covone , C. D'Andrea , A. E. Evrard , H. C. Ferguson , J. Frieman , V. Gonzalez-Perez , R. Gupta , E. Hatziminaoglou , J. Huang , P. Jagannathan , M. J. Jarvis , K. M. Jones , A. Kimball , C. Lidman , L. Lubin , L. Marchetti , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , S. Mei , H. Messias , E. J. Murphy , J. A. Newman , R. Nichol , R. P. Norris , S. Oliver , I. Perez-Fournon , W. M. Peters , M. Pierre , E. Polisensky , G. T. Richards , S. E. Ridgway , H. J. A. Röttgering , N. Seymour , R. Shirley , R. Somerville , M. A. Strauss , N. Suntzeff , P. A. Thorman , E. van Kampen , A. Verma , R. Wechsler , W. M. Wood-Vasey
Forthcoming astronomical imaging surveys will use weak gravitational lensing shear as a primary probe to study dark energy, with accuracy requirements at the 0.1% level. We present an implementation of the Metadetection shear measurement…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2023-05-16
Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Michael Jarvis , Robert Armstrong , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) has been tasked with deriving constraints on…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-12-17
Michelle Lochner , Daniel M. Scolnic , Humna Awan , Nicolas Regnault , Philippe Gris , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eric Gawiser , Husni Almoubayyed , Christian N. Setzer , Simon Huber , Melissa L. Graham , Renée Hložek , Rahul Biswas , Tim Eifler , Daniel Rothchild , Tarek Allam , Jonathan Blazek , Chihway Chang , Thomas Collett , Ariel Goobar , Isobel M. Hook , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Alex G. Kim , Phil Marshall , Jason D. McEwen , Marc Moniez , Jeffrey A. Newman , Hiranya V. Peiris , Tanja Petrushevska , Jason Rhodes , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Anže Slosar , Sherry H. Suyu , J. Anthony Tyson , Peter Yoachim
The Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to process ${\sim}10^6$ transient detections per night. For precision measurements of cosmological parameters and rates, it is critical to understand the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2022-08-03
B. Sánchez , R. Kessler , D. Scolnic , B. Armstrong , R. Biswas , J. Bogart , J. Chiang , J. Cohen-Tanugi , D. Fouchez , Ph. Gris , K. Heitmann , R. Hložek , S. Jha , H. Kelly , S. Liu , G. Narayan , B. Racine , E. Rykoff , M. Sullivan , C. Walter , M. Wood-Vasey , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon survey the southern sky, delivering a depth and sky coverage that is unprecedented in time domain astronomy. As part of commissioning, Data Preview 1 (DP1) has been released. It comprises a LSSTComCam…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-11-11
James Freeburn , Igor Andreoni , Kaylee M. de Soto , Cristina Andrade , Akash Anumarlapudi , Tyler Barna , Jonathan Carney , Sushant Sharma Chaudhary , Michael W. Coughlin , Felipe Fontinele Nunes , Sarah Teague , Mickael Rigault , V. Ashley Villar , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Federica B. Bianco , Alexandre Boucaud , Dominique Boutigny , Andrew Bradshaw , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Phil N. Daly , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Holger Drass , Laurent Le Guillou , Leanne P. Guy , Patrick Ingraham , M. James Jee , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Lee S. Kelvin , Didier Laporte , Shuang Liang , Nate B. Lust , Mostafa Lutfi , Gabriele Mainetti , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Felipe Menanteau , David J. Mills , Marc Moniez , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Russell E. Owen , Maria T. Patterson , John R. Peterson , Wouter van Reeven , Vincent J. Riot , William Roby , David Sanmartim , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Richard A. Shaw , Alysha Shugart , Krzysztof Suberlak , John D. Swinbank , Dan S. Taranu , Charlotte Ward , Christopher Z. Waters , W. M. Wood-Vasey
The operation of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) marks a transformative moment in humanity's capacity to detect and characterize interstellar objects (ISOs). With projections indicating an increase…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-10-16
Omer Eldadi , Gershon Tenenbaum , Abraham Loeb