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Aims: We investigate the utility of Rubin's Data Preview 1 for estimating stellar number density profile in the Milky Way halo. Methods: Stellar broad-band near-UV to near-IR $ugrizy$ photometry released in Rubin's Data Preview 1 is used to…

We present the Bright Star Subtraction (BSS) pipeline for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This pipeline generates an extended PSF model using observed stars and subtracts the model from the bright…

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will carry out its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with a single-exposure depth of $r{\sim}24.7$ and an anticipated baseline of 10 years, allowing to access the Milky Way's old halo not only deeper, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nina Hernitschek , Keivan G. Stassun

RV variable stars are important in astrophysics. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spectroscopic survey has provided ~ 6.5 million stellar spectra in its Data Release 4 (DR4). During the survey, ~ 4.7…

The DEEP-South photometric census of small Solar System bodies produces massive time-series data of variable, transient or moving objects as a by-product. To fully investigate unexplored variable phenomena, we present an application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 Seo-Won Chang , Yong-Ik Byun , Min-Su Shin , Hahn Yi , Myung-Jin Kim , Hong-Kyu Moon , Young-Jun Choi , Sang-Mok Cha , Yongseok Lee

Peculiar velocities introduce correlations between supernova magnitudes, which implies that the supernova Hubble diagram residual carries information on both the matter power spectrum at the present time and its growth rate. By a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-01 Karolina Garcia , Miguel Quartin , Beatriz B. Siffert

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

A key science goal of large sky surveys such as those conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and precursors to the Square Kilometre Array is the identification of variable and transient objects. One approach is the statistical analysis…

Many science cases for wide-field time-domain surveys rely on accurate identification and characterization of the galaxies hosting transient and variable objects. In the era of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Charlotte Ward , Peter Melchior , Matt L. Sampson , Colin J. Burke , Jared Siegel , Benjamin Remy , Sufia Birmingham , Emily Ramey , Sjoert van Velzen

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture light curves (LCs) for 10 billion sources and produce millions of transient candidates per night, necessitating scalable, accurate, and efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zora Tung

The Hubble Catalog of Variables (HCV) is a 3 year ESA funded project that aims to develop a set of algorithms to identify variables among the sources included in the Hubble Source Catalog (HSC) and produce the HCV. We will process all HSC…

Imminent impactors are natural bodies discovered in space before impacting the Earth. They provide a rare opportunity to characterize individual near-Earth objects (NEOs) in great detail as asteroids in space, meteors in Earth's atmosphere…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Ian Chow , Mario Jurić , R. Lynne Jones , Kathleen Kiker , Joachim Moeyens , Peter G. Brown , Aren N. Heinze , Jacob A. Kurlander

Time-domain astronomy (TDA) is facing a paradigm shift caused by the exponential growth of the sample size, data complexity and data generation rates of new astronomical sky surveys. For example, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Pablo Huijse , Pablo A. Estevez , Pavlos Protopapas , Jose C. Principe , Pablo Zegers

We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Commissioning Camera. Employing the Redshift…

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

The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin), will transform our view of the wide-field sky, with similar sensitivities, but complementary in wavelength,…

The Princeton Variability Survey (PVS) is a robotic survey which makes use of readily available, ``off-the-shelf'' type hardware products, in conjunction with a powerful set of commercial software products, in order to monitor and discover…

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This work presents the case for a single-band LSST-matched depth Roman Community Survey over the footprint of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Wide-Fast-Deep to enhance the key science programs of both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Federica B. Bianco , Robert Blum , Andrew Connolly , Melissa Graham , Leanne Guy , Zeljko Ivezic , Steve Ritz , Michael A. Strauss , Tony Tyson

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), being conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is a wide-field multi-band survey that will revolutionize our understanding of extragalactic sources through its unprecedented combination of area…

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