What’s happening in LSST?

See the LSST Digest [1] for news and upcoming meetings that have LSST involvement.

LSST Corporation News & Activities [2]

Current News and Announcements

The updated LSST overview paper, “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products” was published in the March 11, 2019 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The paper can be accessed at this link [3].

LSST Operations announces the release of a public draft of the LSST Data Policy. Want to know how to access LSST data and more? Read: http://ls.st/LDO-13 [4]

The project has further investigated the effect of satellite constellations on LSST observing, findings are summarized in Document-33805 [5].

The simulations team is calling for example light curves, for more information see: https://community.lsst.org/t/call-for-example-lightcurves/3898 [6]

As part of the LSST survey strategy optimization effort, a new series of simulated surveys has been released; the full announcement is available at this link [7]. There will be further discussion of these simulations and their trade-offs on community.lsst.org [8]. Log in and make your voice heard! 

The Data Management (DM) team facilitated the 2019 DM Boot Camp in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 12-14. Tutorials and lectures were led by current DM team members and geared towards the new scientists who have joined the Data Release Pipelines (DRP) team, 

LSST Project Status (download slides) [9]

Upcoming Deadlines

As recently announced on community.lsst.org [10] the Operations Team invites current LSST Corporation Memorandum of Agreement holders to to submit Letter of Intent (LOIs) to make in-kind contributions in exchange for LSST data rights. Deadline November 22, 2019.