Publications (12)
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1
Vera C Rubin Observatory Team, Tatiana Acero Cuellar, Emily Acosta +325
We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detecti…
An Untriggered Search for Optical Bursts
Robert Kehoe, Carl Akerlof, Richard Balsano +11
We present an untriggered search for optical bursts with the ROTSE-I telephoto array. Observations were taken which monitor an effective 256 square degree field continuously over 1…
Mitigation of the Brighter-Fatter Effect in the LSST Camera
Alex Broughton, Yousuke Utsumi, Andrés Plazas Malagón +8
Thick, fully depleted charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are known to exhibit non-linear behavior at high signal levels due to the dynamic behavior of charges collecting in the potentia…
The On-Sky Performance of the LSST Camera CCD Array
Sean Patrick MacBride, Aaron Roodman, Stuart Marshall +89
The focal plane of the LSST Camera contains 189 individual science CCDs, arranged into 21 raft tower modules, along with 4 wavefront and 8 guider CCDs located in 4 additional corne…
Photometry, Centroid and Point-Spread Function Measurements in the LSST Camera Focal Plane Using Artificial Stars
Johnny H. Esteves, Yousuke Utsumi, Adam Snyder +12
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera (LSSTCam) pixel response has been characterized using laboratory measurements with a grid of artificial stars. We quantify the contribut…
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko IveziÄ, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…
The filter exchange system of the LSSTCam at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Alexandre Boucaud, Pierre Antilogus, Ãric Aubourg +26
The Filter Exchange System of the LSSTCam at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a critical subsystem enabling the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by performing rapid, repeatab…
Prompt Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts
Robert Kehoe, Carl Akerlof, Richard Balsano +19
The Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) seeks to measure contemporaneous and early afterglow optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The ROTSE-I telescope ar…
A Search for Early Optical Emission from Short and Long Duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Robert Kehoe, Carl Akerlof, Richard Balsano +16
Gamma-ray bursts of short duration may harbor vital clues to the range of phenomena producing bursts. However, recent progress from the observation of optical counterparts has not…
Prompt Optical Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts
Carl Akerlof, Richard Balsano, Scott Barthelmy +18
The Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) seeks to measure simultaneous and early afterglow optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A search for optical counte…
Experimental Measurement of Assembly Indices are Required to Determine The Threshold for Life
Sara I. Walker, Cole Mathis, Stuart Marshall +1
Assembly Theory (AT) was developed to help distinguish living from non-living systems. The theory is simple as it posits that the amount of selection or Assembly is a function of t…
Defining Pathway Assembly and Exploring its Applications
Alastair Murray, Stuart Marshall, Leroy Cronin
How do we estimate the probability of an abundant objects' formation, with minimal context or assumption about is origin? To explore this we have previously introduced the concept…