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Community Science with LSST

Special Session at the 217th AAS Meeting: January 10, 2011, 2:00pm-3:30pm

Session Description:

As the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) moves closer to operations, the astronomical community is gearing up to take maximum advantage of the unprecedented opportunity LSST provides. This AAS Special Session gives astronomers a preview of the available data products and interfaces as well as a discussion of the transformative science enabled by LSST.

Data Management Project Engineer

Kian-Tat Lim, Project Engineer for Data Management

SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS-97
Menlo Park, CA 94025
ktl@slac.stanford.edu
(650) 926-2902

Telescope and Site Project Scientist

Sandrine Thomas, Deputy Director for Rubin Construction for AURA/NSF and Project Scientist for Telescope & Site

Vera C. Rubin Observatory
950 N. Cherry Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719
sthomas@lsst.org
(520) 318-8227

Camera Project Scientist

Steve Ritz, Project Scientist for Camera

University of California, Santa Cruz
SCIPP
1156 High St
331 Nat Sci 2
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
sritz@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-3018

Tim Axelrod

Tim Axelrod

University of Arizona
950 N. Cherry Avenue
Tucson, AZ  85719
taxelrod@lsst.org
(520) 626-0817

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) database team has developed an innovative “overlapping partitioning” method for storing enormous amounts of information for rapid access. By overlapping equally sized packets of information in the partitioned sphere, searching for nearest neighbor sources becomes quick and efficient. Further, the technique has been shown to work just as efficiently with increasingly complex systems. The improved algorithms resulting from this innovative architecture will be available as open source software that can be used by a broad spectrum of fields to transform access to large databases.

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Employment

Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, LSST is an operating center of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  In July of 2014 LSST received its federal construction start and so is seeking scientific, engineering, education, and administrative talent for the construction and eventual operation of this new generation observing facility.  LSST sees the diversity of its team as a critical component in constructing and operating a large scientific facility of value to all.  We ref

Communications Manager

Ranpal Gill, Head of Communications Office

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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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