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Asteroid Day 2015

LSST Project Scientist Zeljko Ivezic presented a talk describing LSST’s asteroid detection capabilities during Asteroid Day June 30, 2015 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. During his talk, entitled “Hunting for Asteroids with LSST,” Zeljko described LSST as an “amazing discovery machine for new asteroids” whose unique design, particularly its large mirror and huge field of view, addresses the main challenges of finding asteroids: detecting faint objects and covering the whole sky. Zeljko's talk can be viewed on YouTube.

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Survey Observing Strategy

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Rubin Observatory Organizational Structure

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. 

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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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