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Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are astrophysical phenomena arising when stars are disrupted by supermassive black holes. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), with its unprecedented depth and cadence, will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Kunal Bhardwaj , Asen Christov , Sergey Karpov

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are rare transients, which are considered as promising tools in probing supermassive black holes in quiescent galaxies. The majority of $\approx 60$ known TDEs has been discovered with time-domain surveys in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 K. Bučar Bricman , S. van Velzen , M. Nicholl , A. Gomboc

Known for their efficiency in analyzing large data sets, machine learning classifiers are widely used in wide-field sky surveys. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy of Time and Space Survey (LSST) will generate millions of alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Xinyue Sheng , Matt Nicholl , Ken W. Smith , David R. Young , Roy D. Williams , Heloise F. Stevance , Stephen J. Smartt , Shubham Srivastav , Thomas Moore

The Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to revolutionize time-domain optical astronomy as we know it. With its unprecedented depth, the LSST will survey the southern hemisphere sky, generating nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Andrea Simongini , F. Ragosta , I. Di Palma , S. Piranomonte

Future surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will observe an order of magnitude more astrophysical transient events than any previous survey before. With this deluge of photometric data,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Tarek Allam , Jason D. McEwen

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in early to mid-2025. This multi-band wide-field synoptic survey will transform our view of the solar system, with the discovery and monitoring of…

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover tens of thousands of astrophysical transients per night, far outpacing available spectroscopic follow-up capabilities. Carefully prioritising candidates for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Aidan Sedgewick , Christa Gall , Luca Izzo , Adriano Agnello , Charlotte R. Angus , Jens Hjorth , Arthur Kadela

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

The development of the observing strategy for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) requires a broad optimization across science cases inside and outside of time-domain astronomy. We introduce a novel metric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Yu-Qian , Ouyang , Alex I. Malz , Ming Lian , Shar Daniels , Federica Bianco , Mathilda Nilsson

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will increase the number of observed supernovae (SNe) by an order of magnitude; however, it is impossible to spectroscopically confirm the class for all the SNe discovered. Thus, photometric classification is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Catarina S. Alves , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Tarek Allam , Rahul Biswas

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…

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will enable astronomers to discover rare and distant astrophysical transients. Host-galaxy association is crucial for selecting the most scientifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Josh G. Weston , David R. Young , Stephen J. Smartt , Matt Nicholl , Matt J. Jarvis , I. H. Whittam

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 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…

Machine learning has become essential for automated classification of astronomical transients, but current approaches face significant limitations: classifiers trained on simulations struggle with real data, models developed for one survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Nabeel Rehemtulla , Ved Shah

New time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe millions of transient alerts each night, making standard approaches of visually identifying new and interesting transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Muthukrishna , Kaisey S. Mandel , Michelle Lochner , Sara Webb , Gautham Narayan

Optical time-domain survey has been the dominant means of hunting for rare tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the past decade and remarkably advanced the TDE study. Particularly, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has opened the era of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Zheyu Lin , Ning Jiang , Xu Kong

Perhaps the most exciting promise of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is its capability to discover phenomena never before seen or predicted from theory: true astrophysical novelties, but the ability of LSST to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Xiaolong Li , Fabio Ragosta , William I. Clarkson , Federica B. Bianco
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