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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

 

The LSST 2014 Project and Community Workshop took place in Phoenix, AZ, August 11 - 15, bringing over 250 participants to the Valley of the Sun for a week of extensive and productive interaction.  120 of those participants also attended a concurrent workshop on the LSST Observing Cadence co-hosted by NOAO and LSST with its own week-long series of discussions on how to optimize the cadence to maximize both static and transient/variable science results.   Plenary and Breakout presentations are linked to the workshop website: from the Agenda link on the main menu, select the specific day (then session then presentation) from the drop down menu. 

Two plenary talks are of particular interest, summarizing the current state of the project and plans for the future, now that LSST has its federal construction chart.  They describe the technical and financial status of the project, and the respective roles of the Project Office, AURA, the LSST Corporation, international partners, the science collaborations, and more as the project moves forward. 

The LSST 2015 Workshop will be held in Seattle, WA, with both the date and format to be announced at a later time.

 

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The effort to build Rubin Observatory is a partnership between public and private organizations, which is actively being supported and developed by more than one hundred astronomers, physicists, and engineers spanning the globe. They see Rubin Observatory as the next big leap in charting the heavens and probing nature's mysteries as well as an exciting technological challenge and a new model for doing science with big data.

 

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Science Goals

The scientific questions that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will address are profound: What is the mysterious dark energy that is driving the acceleration of the cosmic expansion? What is dark matter, how is it distributed, and how do its properties affect the formation of stars, galaxies, and larger structures? How did the Milky Way form, and how has its present configuration been modified by mergers with smaller bodies over cosmic time? What is the nature of the outer regions of the solar system?

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) published a comprehensive story, NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture the unseen cosmos ,” which features quotes from several Rubin representatives.

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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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