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The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

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

The LSST DESC Data Challenge 1: Generation and Analysis of Synthetic Images for Next Generation Surveys

Data Challenge 1 (DC1) is the first synthetic dataset produced by the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). DC1 is designed to develop and validate data reduction and analysis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-14 F. Javier Sánchez , Chris W. Walter , Humna Awan , James Chiang , Scott F. Daniel , Eric Gawiser , Tom Glanzman , David P. Kirkby , Rachel Mandelbaum , Anže Slosar , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Yusra AlSayyad , Colin J. Burke , Seth W. Digel , Mike Jarvis , Tony Johnson , Heather Kelly , Simon Krughoff , Robert H. Lupton , Phil J. Marshall , John R. Peterson , Paul A. Price , Glenn Sembroski , Brian Van Klaveren , Matthew P. Wiesner , Bo Xin

The Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time DP0.2 processing campaign at CC-IN2P3

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently in construction in Chile, will start performing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in 2025 for 10 years. Its 8.4-meter telescope will survey the southern sky in less than 4 nights in six…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Quentin Le Boulc'h , Fabio Hernandez , Gabriele Mainetti

CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the starting point for the second data challenge (DC2) carried…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Danila Korytov , Andrew Hearin , Eve Kovacs , Patricia Larsen , Esteban Rangel , Joseph Hollowed , Andrew J. Benson , Katrin Heitmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Anita Bahmanyar , Chihway Chang , Duncan Campbell , Joseph Derose , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere , Eric Gawiser , Salman Habib , Benjamin Joachimi , François Lanusse , Nan Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Morrison , Jeffrey A. Newman , Adrian Pope , Eli Rykoff , Melanie Simet , Chun-Hao To , Vinu Vikraman , Risa H. Wechsler , Martin White

SNIa-Cosmology Analysis Results from Simulated LSST Images: from Difference Imaging to Constraints on Dark Energy

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

Opportunities in AI/ML for the Rubin LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

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

Extreme Scale Survey Simulation with Python Workflows

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will soon carry out an unprecedented wide, fast, and deep survey of the sky in multiple optical bands. The data from LSST will open up a new discovery space in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 A. S. Villarreal , Yadu Babuji , Tom Uram , Daniel S. Katz , Kyle Chard , Katrin Heitmann

The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2

We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival DECam data from the Dark Energy Survey, the DECam Legacy Survey, and other DECam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Drlica-Wagner , P. S. Ferguson , M. Adamów , M. Aguena , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , E. F. Bell , E. Bertin , P. Bilaji , S. Bocquet , C. R. Bom , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. A. Carballo-Bello , J. L. Carlin , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , W. Cerny , C. Chang , Y. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , D. Crnojević , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , J. Esteves , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , D. Hernandez-Lang , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , A. K. Hughes , A. Jacques , D. J. James , M. D. Johnson , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , M. March , J. L. Marshall , D. Martínez-Delgado , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , M. McNanna , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , A. E. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , R. R. Muñoz , E. H. Neilsen , D. L. Nidever , R. Nikutta , J. L. Nilo Castellon , N. E. D. Noël , R. L. C. Ogando , K. A. G. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , A. H. Riley , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , J. D. Sakowska , E. Sanchez , F. J. Sánchez , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. D. Simon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , E. Suchyta , D. J. Suson , C. Y. Tan , G. Tarle , K. Tavangar , D. Thomas , C. To , E. J. Tollerud , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson , J. F. Wu , B. Yanny , E. Zaborowski , A. Zenteno

Experience deploying an analysis facility for the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing for the execution of the most ambitious astronomical survey ever attempted, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Currently in its final phase of construction in the Andes mountains in Chile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Gabriele Mainetti , Fabio Hernandez , Fabrice Jammes , Quentin Le Boulc'h

A Joint Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory Synthetic Wide-Field Imaging Survey

We present and validate 20 deg$^2$ of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) and five years of observations of the Vera C. Rubin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 M. A. Troxel , C. Lin , A. Park , C. Hirata , R. Mandelbaum , M. Jarvis , A. Choi , J. Givans , M. Higgins , B. Sanchez , M. Yamamoto , H. Awan , J. Chiang , O. Dore , C. W. Walter , T. Zhang , J. Cohen-Tanugi , E. Gawiser , A. Hearin , K. Heitmann , M. Ishak , E. Kovacs , Y. -Y. Mao , M. Wood-Vasey , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

A Gateway to Astronomical Image Processing: Vera C. RubinObservatory LSST Science Pipelines on AWS

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

Overview of the distributed image processing infrastructure to produce the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

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 Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , A. Amon , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , L. Gelman , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. Gill , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , T. Manning , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Myles , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , C. Pond , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , P. E. Tremblay , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , D. J Turner , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , R. Nikutta , M. Fitzpatrick , A. Jacques , A. Scott , K. Olsen , L. Huang , D. Herrera , S. Juneau , D. Nidever , B. A. Weaver , C. Adean , V. Correia , M. de Freitas , F. N. Freitas , C. Singulani , G. Vila-Verde

OpenUniverse2024: A shared, simulated view of the sky for the next generation of cosmological surveys

The OpenUniverse2024 simulation suite is a cross-collaboration effort to produce matched simulated imaging for multiple surveys as they would observe a common simulated sky. Both the simulated data and associated tools used to produce it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 OpenUniverse , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , The Roman HLIS Project Infrastructure Team , The Roman RAPID Project Infrastructure Team , The Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team , A. Alarcon , L. Aldoroty , G. Beltz-Mohrmann , A. Bera , J. Blazek , J. Bogart , G. Braeunlich , A. Broughton , K. Cao , J. Chiang , N. E. Chisari , V. Desai , Y. Fang , L. Galbany , A. Hearin , K. Heitmann , C. Hirata , R. Hounsell , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , J. Jencson , A. Kannawadi , M. K. Kasliwal , R. Kessler , A. Kiessling , R. Knop , E. Kovacs , R. Laher , K. Laliotis , C. Lin , I. Lopes , A. Mahabal , R. Mandelbaum , J. Masiero , S. Mau , C. Meehan , J. Meyers , B. Moraes , R. Paladini , A. Pearl , A. Plazas Malagon , B. Rose , D. Rubin , B. Rusholme , A. Santos , N. Šarčević , J. Singhal , D. Scolnic , M. A. Troxel , N. Van Alfen , S. Van Dyke , C. W. Walter , T. Wu , M. Yamamoto , Y. Yan , T. Zhang

Validating Synthetic Galaxy Catalogs for Dark Energy Science in the LSST Era

Large simulation efforts are required to provide synthetic galaxy catalogs for ongoing and upcoming cosmology surveys. These extragalactic catalogs are being used for many diverse purposes covering a wide range of scientific topics. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 Eve Kovacs , Yao-Yuan Mao , Michel Aguena , Anita Bahmanyar , Adam Broussard , James Butler , Duncan Campbell , Chihway Chang , Shenming Fu , Katrin Heitmann , Danila Korytov , François Lanusse , Patricia Larsen , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher B. Morrison , Constantin Payerne , Marina Ricci , Eli Rykoff , F. Javier Sánchez , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Melanie Simet , Chun-Hao To , Vinu Vikraman , Rongpu Zhou , Camille Avestruz , Christophe Benoist , Andrew J. Benson , Lindsey Bleem , Aleksandra Ćiprianović , Céline Combet , Eric Gawiser , Shiyuan He , Remy Joseph , Jeffrey A. Newman , Judit Prat , Samuel Schmidt , Anže Slosar , Joe Zuntz , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

A Cohesive Deep Drilling Field Strategy for LSST Cosmology

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 2024-11-13 Philippe Gris , Humna Awan , Matthew R. Becker , Huan Lin , Eric Gawiser , Saurabh W. Jha , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Cyber-infrastructure to Support Science and Data Management for the Dark Energy Survey

The Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000 deg2 in collaboration with the South Pole Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ngeow , J. J. Mohr , T. Alam , W. A. Barkhouse , C. Beldica , D. Cai , G. Daues , R. Plante , J. Annis , H. Lin , D. Tucker , R. C. Smith

The commissioning team for the Vera C. Rubin observatory is planning a set of engineering and science verification observations with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) commissioning camera and then the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 A. Amon , K. Bechtol , A. J. Connolly , S. W. Digel , A. Drlica-Wagner , E. Gawiser , M. Jarvis , S. W. Jha , A. von der Linden , M. Moniez , G. Narayan , N. Regnault , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , S. J. Schmidt , S. H. Suyu , C. W. Walter

Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB

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

A Unified Catalog-level Reanalysis of Stage-III Cosmic Shear Surveys

Cosmological parameter constraints from recent galaxy imaging surveys are reaching $2-3\%$-level accuracy. The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will produce sub-percent level measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Emily P. Longley , Chihway Chang , Christopher W. Walter , Joe Zuntz , Mustapha Ishak , Rachel Mandelbaum , Hironao Miyatake , Andrina Nicola , Eske M. Pedersen , Maria E. S. Pereira , Judit Prat , J. Sánchez , Tilman Tröster , Michael Troxel , Angus Wright , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration