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Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program

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

Survey Footprint Explorer: A Browser-Based Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Cross-Matching Astronomical Survey Footprints

We present the Survey Footprint Explorer (v2.5.0), a browser-based interactive tool for visualising and comparing the sky footprints of major astronomical imaging surveys. The tool is implemented entirely in client-side JavaScript and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 S. L. Ahad , R. Brilenkov , J. E. Taylor

Second Data Release of the All-sky NOIRLab Source Catalog

We announce the second data release (DR2) of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC), using 412,116 public images from CTIO-4m+DECam, the KPNO-4m+Mosaic3 and the Bok-2.3m+90Prime. NSC DR2 contains over 3.9 billion unique objects, 68 billion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 David L. Nidever , Arjun Dey , Katie Fasbender , Stephanie Juneau , Aaron M. Meisner , Joseph Wishart , Adam Scott , Kyle Matt , Robert Nikutta , Ragadeepika Pucha

SkyMapper Southern Survey: Second Data Release (DR2)

We present the second data release (DR2) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey, a hemispheric survey carried out with the SkyMapper Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, using six optical filters: $u,v,g,r,i,z$. DR2 is the first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Christopher A. Onken , Christian Wolf , Michael S. Bessell , Seo-Won Chang , Gary S. Da Costa , Lance C. Luvaul , Dougal Mackey , Brian P. Schmidt , Li Shao

RIDEN pilot survey: broad-band selection of candidate quasars with extended Lyman-$\alpha$ nebulae using CLAUDS-HSC-SSP-DUNES$^2$ joint data

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), delivering deep, multi-band ($ugrizy$) imaging data across 18,000 square degrees over the next decade. Before this ultra-wide-field survey, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Rhythm Shimakawa , Satoshi Kikuta , Haruka Kusakabe , Marcin Sawicki , Yongming Liang , Rieko Momose , Stephen Gwyn , Guillaume Desprez

The Dark Energy Survey

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a proposed optical-near infrared survey of 5000 sq. deg of the South Galactic Cap to ~24th magnitude in SDSS griz, that would use a new 3 sq. deg CCD camera to be mounted on the Blanco 4-m telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data with Near Infrared Data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey

We present the combination of optical data from the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with near infrared data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS). The deep optical detections from DES are used to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Manda Banerji , S. Jouvel , H. Lin , R. G. McMahon , O. Lahav , F. J. Castander , F. B. Abdalla , E. Bertin , S. E. Bosman , A. Carnero , M. Carrasco Kind , L. N. da Costa , D. Gerdes , J. Gschwend , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , A. Merson , C. Miller , R. Ogando , P. Pellegrini , S. Reed , R. Saglia , C. Sanchez , S. Allam J. Annis , G. Bernstein , J. Bernstein , R. Bernstein , D. Capozzi , M. Childress , Carlos E. Cunha , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , J. Findlay , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , C. Gonzalez-Fernandez , E. Gonzalez-Solares , K. Honscheid , M. J. Irwin , M. J. Jarvis , A. Kim , S. Koposov , K. Kuehn , A. Kupcu-Yoldas , D. Lagattuta , J. R. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Makler , J. Marriner , Jennifer L. Marshall , R. Miquel , Joseph J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , J. Peoples , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , R. Sharp , M. Soares-Santos , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , R. Wechsler , W. Wester , F. Yuan , J. Zuntz

LSST Survey Strategies and Brown Dwarf Parallaxes

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has the potential to measure parallaxes for thousands of nearby ultracool dwarfs, enabling improved measurements of the brown dwarf luminosity function. We develop a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 John E. Gizis , Peter Yoachim , R. Lynne Jones , Dylan Hilligoss , Jinbiao Ji

A Big Sky Approach to Cadence Diplomacy

The LSST survey was designed to deliver transformative results for four primary objectives: constraining dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-07 Knut Olsen , Marcella Di Criscienzo , R. Lynne Jones , Megan E. Schwamb , Hsing Wen "Edward" Lin , Humna Awan , Phil Marshall , Eric Gawiser , Adam Bolton , Daniel Eisenstein

Cosmology with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: an Overview

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-12 Hu Zhan , J. Anthony Tyson

Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available at http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire. DR2 includes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Andrew Wetzel , Jenna Samuel , Pratik J. Gandhi , Sam B. Ponnada , Kung-Yi Su , Arpit Arora , Daniel Angles-Alcazar , Christopher C. Hayward , Robyn E. Sanderson , Robert Feldmann , Rachel Cochrane , Farnik Nikakhtar , Nondh Panithanpaisal , Jose A. Benavides , Viraj Pandya , Mike Grudic , Cameron Hummels , Alexander B. Gurvich , Zachary Hafen , Xiangcheng Ma , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Omid Sameie , T. K Chan , Kareem El-Badry , Lina Necib , Sarah Loebman , Sarah Wellons , Victor H. Robles , Coral Wheeler , Jorge Moreno , Jonathan Stern , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , James S. Bullock , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Dusan Keres , Eliot Quataert , Philip F. Hopkins

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps that cover nearly half the sky at arcminute resolution in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Maya Mallaby-Kay , Zachary Atkins , Simone Aiola , Stefania Amodeo , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Grace E. Chesmore , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Edwawd V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Simone Ferraro , Kyra Fichman , Patricio A. Gallardo , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Renee Hlozek , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian J. Koopman , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristobal Sifon , Sara Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie R. Storer , Joel N. Ullom , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Leila R. Vale , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a curated data set derived from DES Data Release 2 (DR2) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 K. Bechtol , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , A. Drlica-Wagner , B. Yanny , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , E. S. Rykoff , J. De Vicente , M. Adamow , D. Anbajagane , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Gschwend , M. Gorsuch , W. G. Hartley , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , R. Kron , T. A. Manning , J. O'Donnell , A. Pieres , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Tabbutt , L. Toribio San Cipriano , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcón , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , P. H. Bernardinelli , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , N. Jeffrey , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , Y. Zhang

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its main science goals is to create an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Joseph Murtagh , Megan E. Schwamb , Stephanie R. Merritt , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Jacob A. Kurlander , Samuel Cornwall , Mario Jurić , Grigori Fedorets , Matthew J. Holman , Siegfried Eggl , David Nesvorný , Kathryn Volk , R. Lynne Jones , Peter Yoachim , Joachim Moeyens , Jeremy Kubica , Drew Oldag , Maxine West , Colin Orion Chandler

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Multi-Probe Methodology and Simulated Likelihood Analyses

We present the methodology for and detail the implementation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 3x2pt DES Year 1 (Y1) analysis, which combines configuration-space two-point statistics from three different cosmological probes: cosmic shear,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 E. Krause , T. F. Eifler , J. Zuntz , O. Friedrich , M. A. Troxel , S. Dodelson , J. Blazek , L. F. Secco , N. MacCrann , E. Baxter , C. Chang , N. Chen , M. Crocce , J. DeRose , A. Ferte , N. Kokron , F. Lacasa , V. Miranda , Y. Omori , A. Porredon , R. Rosenfeld , S. Samuroff , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. C. Nichol , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller

Results of the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)

Next-generation surveys like the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate orders of magnitude more discoveries of transients and variable stars than previous surveys. To prepare for this data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-24 R. Hložek , K. A. Ponder , A. I. Malz , M. Dai , G. Narayan , E. E. O. Ishida , T. Allam , A. Bahmanyar , R. Biswas , L. Galbany , S. W. Jha , D. O. Jones , R. Kessler , M. Lochner , A. A. Mahabal , K. S. Mandel , J. R. Martínez-Galarza , J. D. McEwen , D. Muthukrishna , H. V. Peiris , C. M. Peters , C. N. Setzer

Impact of blending on weak lensing measurements with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Upcoming deep optical surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will scan the sky to unprecedented depths and detect billions of galaxies. This amount of detections will however cause the apparent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Manon Ramel , Cyrille Doux , Marine Kuna

Dark Energy Survey: Modeling strategy for multiprobe cluster cosmology and validation for the Full Six-year Dataset

We introduce an updated To&Krause2021 model for joint analyses of cluster abundances and large-scale two-point correlations of weak lensing and galaxy and cluster clustering (termed CL+3x2pt analysis) and validate that this model meets the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Chun-Hao To , Elisabeth Krause , Chihway Chang , Hao-Yi Wu , Risa H. Wechsler , Eduardo Rozo , David H. Weinberg , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , M. Costanzi , J. De Vicente , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , S. Grandis , J. Muir , A. Porredon , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , N. Weaverdyck , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , M. R. Becker , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , A. Choi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , P. Doel , S. Everett , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fern , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Myles , A. Palmese , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , T. Shin , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller

Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS): Public data release

The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 P. R. Wozniak , W. T. Vestrand , C. W. Akerlof , R. Balsano , J. Bloch , D. Casperson , S. Fletcher , G. Gisler , R. Kehoe , K. Kinemuchi , B. C. Lee , S. Marshall , K. E. McGowan , T. A. McKay , E. S. Rykoff , D. A. Smith , J. Szymanski , J. Wren

Neural Posterior Estimation for Cataloging Astronomical Images from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will commence full-scale operations in 2026, yielding an unprecedented volume of astronomical images. Constructing an astronomical catalog, a table of imaged stars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yicun Duan , Xinyue Li , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration