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astro-ph.SR2025

A Systematic Search for Main-Sequence Dipper Stars Using the Zwicky Transient Facility

Anastasios Tzanidakis, James R. A. Davenport, Neven Caplar +8

Main-sequence dipper stars, characterized by irregular and often aperiodic luminosity dimming events, offer a unique opportunity to explore the variability of circumstellar materia…

astro-ph.GA2025

Crowded Field Photometry with Rubin: Exploring 47 Tucanae with Data Preview 1

Tobin M. Wainer, James R. A. Davenport, Eric C. Bellm +15

We analyze imaging from Data Preview 1 of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to explore the performance of early LSST pipelines in the 47 Tucanae field. The coadd-\texttt{object} catalo…

astro-ph.IM2025

Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB

Konstantin Malanchev, Melissa DeLucchi, Neven Caplar +56

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently released Data Preview 1 (DP1) in advance of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will enable boundless discoveries in t…

astro-ph.IM2025

Using LSDB to enable large-scale catalog distribution, cross-matching, and analytics

Neven Caplar, Wilson Beebe, Doug Branton +9

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate an unprecedented volume of data, including approximately 60 petabytes of raw data and around 30 trillion observed sources, posing a sign…

astro-ph.IM2026

Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid

Aritra Ghosh, Drew Oldag, Michael Tauraso +29

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Roman Space Telescope, Euclid, and other next-generation surveys will deliver imaging, spectroscopic, and time-domain data at scales that inc…

astro-ph.EP2026

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…