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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Earlier this year a new funding model for LSST operations was announced. Since then the team has been working hard to flesh out the details of the model. Part of that work was to set up a process to get proposals from current International Memorandum of Agreements (MOA) holders. We're please to announce that this process is now being kicked off!

Timeline

October 31, 2019

Invitation to current MOA holders and interested groups

November 22, 2019

Letters of Intent due

March 31, 2020

Proposals due

May 31, 2020

Evaluation feedback provided

Summer 2020

Iterate to convergence on draft agreement text


For more details and background information please refer to the post on the community forum.

Friday, October 4, 2019

The LSST Camera team and its work at SLAC was recently featured in a popular YouTube video from the series “Physics Girl.” The video provides a behind-the-scenes look at the unveiling of the LSST camera lenses in the clean room at SLAC, and features interviews with LSST Project members Margaux Lopez and Aaron Roodman. Watch the video at this link. 

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

An article detailing the unique engineering challenges faced by the LSST camera team at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was recently published in Symmetry, a joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab. 

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Amanda Bauer, LSST Head of EPO, was interviewed during a visit to the LSST construction site in Chile for a recent episode of the podcast Looking Up, titled, “Meet the LSST.”

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

LSST was featured in a recent article titled “An Astronomical Data Challenge,” published in Symmetry, a joint publication of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Fermilab.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Margery Morse, Mechanical Designer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, was featured in the cover story of the January 23 issue of The Almanac. The profile article details her contributions to the LSST Camera.

Friday, January 18, 2019

Jeff Kantor, LSST IT Senior Manager, was interviewed about LSST for the podcast Looking Up, in an episode that originally aired on the radio in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 18th.

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

LSST Data Management team members Frossie Economou and Dr. Yusra AlSayyad were interviewed on November 27th on the YouTube channel Deep Astronomy. The program, “All About LSST Science and Engineering,” can be viewed at this link.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

The LSST Camera, currently being assembled at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, was featured in this recent Gizmodo article.

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Dr. Amanda Bauer, Head of EPO for LSST, was recently interviewed for the Cardiff University podcast Pythagorean Astronomy. The episode, in which she discusses the impact of LSST, can be accessed here.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Puerto Coquimbo terminal receives coating chamber of the future LSST telescope...  

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Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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