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About Rubin Observatory

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Overview

The goal of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory project is to conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). LSST will deliver a 500 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. The Rubin Observatory LSST is designed to address four science areas:

Education and Public Outreach

Data Management

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Data Management is responsible for creating the software, services and systems which will be used to produce Rubin Observatory's data products. If you are interested in installing the pipeline software jump to pipelines.lsst.io.

Camera

The Rubin Observatory LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever constructed. At about 5.5 ft (1.65 m) by 9.8 ft (3 m), it's roughly the size of a small car and weighs almost 6200 lbs (2800 kg). It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical imager capable of viewing light from the near ultraviolet to near infrared (0.3-1 μm) wavelengths. The LSST Camera is designed to provide a 3.5-degree field of view, with its 10 μm pixels capable of 0.2 arcsecond sampling for optimized pixel sensitivity vs pixel resolution.

Rubin Observatory Telescope & Site

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Telescope and Site is a subsystem of the Rubin Observatory which includes the telescope itself, as well as the buildings and facilities needed to support the operations and maintenance of Rubin Observatory.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Image Credit: 
P. Marenfeld/LSST Project Office

The LSST Project has emerged from a busy and exciting summer preparing the technical and administrative aspects of the Project for the final stages of design and construction readiness. In July, the LSST project management transitioned to Victor Krabbendam, who kicks off his contribution to LSST E-News below… I have been on the job for three months now, and I am very excited to be working with a great team on a spectacular project. It is a tremendous privilege to be named the LSST Project Manager. It is already well established that the Project is positioned to address many of today’s compelling questions in astronomy and physics. It will also provide a new paradigm for data intensive science and engineering and will offer countless opportunities to address STEM education. The privilege for me is the opportunity to work with the team of engineers, scientists, and other professionals to derive, build, and commission this observatory. The team has been led by Don Sweeney since 2003, and it is my pleasure to take over and lead this team in making the LSST a reality.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Poster Session 

247.01 - LSST Data Products: Enabling LSST Science
Mario Juric1, J. Kantor1, T. S. Axelrod2, G. P. Dubois-Felsmann3, J. Becla3, K-T Lim3, R. Lupton4, the LSST Project and Science Collaborations
1 Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 2University of Arizona 3SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 4Princeton University
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247.02 - Astroinformatics in the Age of LSST: Analyzing the Summer 2012 Data Release
Kirk Borne1, N. De Lee2, K. Stassun2, Martin Paegert2, P. Cargile2, D. Burger2, J. Bloom3, J. Richards3
1George Mason University, 2Vanderbilt University, 3University of California Berkeley
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247.03 - Advancing the LSST Operations Simulator
Abhijit Saha1, Francisco Delgado1, Kem H. Cook2, Stephen Ridgway1, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan1, Catherine Petry3 and the Operations Simulator Group
1NOAO, 2Eureka Science, 3Unaffilliated
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247.04 - Simulating LSST Mini Surveys
Stephen T. Ridgway1, Kem H. Cook2, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan1 and the LSST Operations Simulator Group
1NOAO 2Eureka Scientific
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247.05 - LSST Image Simulations
En-Hsin Peng1, J. R. Peterson1, J. G. Jernigan2, A. J. Connolly3, Z. Ahmad1, J. Bankert1, D. Bard4, C. Chang5, C. F. Claver6, R. R. Gibson3, D. K. Gilmore4, E. Grace1, M. Hannel1, M. Hodge1, L. Jones3, S. M. Kahn4, K. S. Krughoff3, S. Lorenz1, S. Marshall4, S. Nagarajan1, A. Rasmussen4, M. Shmakova4, N. Silvestri3, N. Todd1, A. Winans1, M. Young1
1Purdue University, 2UC Berkeley, 3University of Washington, 4SLAC, 5Stanford, 6NOAO
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247.06 - LSST Astrometry: Simulations and Numerical Tools
Željko Ivezić1, D. Monet2, A. Connolly1, S. Krughoff1, A. Walker3
1University of Washington, 2U. S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, 3Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
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247.07 - The LSST Deep Drilling Program
R. Lynne Jones1, W. Niel Brandt2, Kem Cook3, Saurav Dhital4, Mark Lacy5, and the LSST Deep Drilling Interest Group
1University of Washington, 2Penn State University, 3LSST Corp, 4Boston University, 5NRAO
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247.08 - LSST as a Large Scale Structure Telescope: Probing Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
Eric Gawiser1, Hu Zhan2, Alexandra Abate3, Viviana Acquaviva4, Andrew Bradshaw5, Robert J. Brunner6, Shirley Ho7, Jeffrey A. Newman8, J. Anthony Tyson5 and the LSST Large Scale Structure Science Collaboration
1Rutgers University 2National Astronomical Observatories of China 3University of Arizona 4CUNY NYC College of Technology 5University of California, Davis 6University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 7Carnegie Mellon University 8University of Pittsburgh
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247.09 - How to Measure Dark Energy with LSST's Strong Gravitational Lenses
Phil Marshall1, Tommaso Treu2, Robert Brunner3,
and the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Strong Lensing Analysis Working Group
1Department of Physics, University of Oxford 2Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara 3University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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247.10 - AGN Science with the LSST
Ohad Shemmer1, S. F. Anderson2, D. R. Ballantyne3, A. J. Barth4, W. N. Brandt5, R. J. Brunner6, G. Chartas7, P. S. Coppi8, W. H. de Vries9, M. Eracleous5, X. Fan10, R. Gibson11, A. G. Gray3, R. F. Green12,
A. E. Kimball13, M. Lacy13, P. Lira14, G. M. Madejski15, J. Newman16, G. T. Richards17, D. P. Schneider5, A. Seth18, H. A. Smith19, M. A. Strauss20, E. Treister21, L. Trouille22, 23, C. M. Urry8, D. Vanden Berk24
1University of North Texas, 2University of Washington, 3Georgia Tech, 4UC Irvine, 5Penn State, 6UIUC, 7College of Charleston, 8Yale, 9LLNL, 10University of Arizona, 11Autonomy Software, 12LBTO, 13NRAO, 14Universidad de Chile, 15SLAC, 16University of Pittsburgh, 17Drexel University, 18University of Utah, 19CfA, 20Princeton, 21Universidad de Concepcion, 22Northwestern, 23Adler Planetarium, 24St. Vincent College
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247.11 - Connections Between LSST Science and Particle Physics
Tony Tyson1, Patricia Burchat2, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann3 , Steven Kahn2,3, Ian Shipsey4 , Jon Thaler5
1UC Davis 2Stanford 3SLAC 4Purdue 5U. Illinois
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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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