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LSST-French Connection

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On March 5, 2015, representatives from the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a French public scientific and technological institution, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, The LSST Project Office (LSSTPO), and The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, met in Paris, France to sign two agreements solidifying partnerships related to the construction, operations, and exploitation of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between IN2P3, LSSTC, LSSTPO, and NCSA established a partnership between the parties to enable IN2P3 to contribute to the LSST Data Release Processing during the survey operations of the facility. In exchange, a set of French scientists will collaborate in the scientific exploitation of the LSST database. Under this agreement IN2P3 will contribute to the data processing operations of LSST through the provision of communications, processing hardware, and labor necessary to support LSST annual data release processing as a satellite processing site to the NCSA LSST Archive Center. This agreement solidifies the partnership between CNRS/IN2P3, LSSTC, and NCSA that will be effective and remain in full force and effect through the end of the LSST survey operations.

The second agreement, between IN2P3, SLAC, and LSSTC, extended an existing scientific and technical collaboration between IN2P3 and SLAC into the fabrication phase of the Camera Project for the LSST. IN2P3 scientists and engineers at a set of nine distinct laboratories are involved in many areas of the camera development including the sensors and electronics, the filter system, camera control software, and integration and test.

LSST Director Steven M. Kahn, IN2P3 Director Jacques Martino, and LSSTC Executive Officer Pat Eliason sign MOAs solidifying the parties’ partnership on March 5 in Paris.
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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).
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