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The effort to build Rubin Observatory is a partnership between public and private organizations.

Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe

The evolution of the Universe is governed by the amount of dark matter and dark energy it contains, but the densities of dark matter and dark energy—their concentrations within a given volume of space—are affected very differently by cosmic expansion. We have a good idea of how much dark matter the universe holds, and although we don't know precisely what it is, we do know it is affected by gravity. The key, then, to understanding the eventual fate of the Universe lies in understanding the other half of this dark equation: dark energy.

Probing the Nature of Dark Energy

The world of quantum gravity at a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when the universe was so hot and dense that even protons and neutrons were broken up into a hot soup of quarks, connects to the world as we now see it—a vast expanding cosmos extending out 14 billion light-years. Dark energy and dark matter are relics of the first moments when the unfamiliar physics of quantum gravity ruled. 

LSST at AAS 221

Poster Session 

 

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012 Meeting

July 1-6, 2012 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

LSST posters and oral presentations at SPIE Meeting

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope final design status (Invited Paper), Victor L. Krabbendam, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA); Donald W. Sweeney, LSST Corp. (USA) [8444-09]

LSST at AAS 219

LSST will have a presence at the January 2012 meeting in Austin, starting with a half-day "splinter meeting" in the Austin Convention Center on Sunday afternoon, January 8th.  The ten coordinated posters in LSST session 156  will be up for one day, Monday, January 9th.  An LSST booth in the exhibit hall will also be up throughout the meeting.

LSST at AAS 217

LSST has a strong presence at the January 2011 meeting in Seattle, starting with a Special Session titled "Community Science with LSST" on Monday, 1/10 with six speakers. Twenty-five posters make up poster session 252 on Tuesday, 1/11. Links to these posters and presentations will be presented on this page as they become available.

LSST at AAS 215

215th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Washington, DC
3-7 January 2010

Session 401. LSST

Poster, Monday, January 4th, 2010, Exhibit Hall A

Click the titles to download a reduced size poster in pdf format. Contact us for a full size copy.

 

LSST at AAS 213

213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Long Beach, CA
5-8 January 2009

Session 460. LSST

Poster, Friday, January 11th, 2009, 9:30 - 18:30, Exhibit Hall

Click the titles to download a reduced size poster in pdf format. Contact us for a full size copy.

 

LSST High Fire Event

The LSST primary/tertiary mirror experienced a successful High Fire over the weekend of March 28 & 29th, 2008, reaching a peak temperature of approximately 1165∫C (2125∫F). (See this video taken inside the oven over high fire). This event is the critical first step in fabricating the key optical components of the LSST, a unique wide-field survey 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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