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most citedLSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

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astro-ph.IM2026

The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment

Rubin Observatory Science Pipelines Developers, Yusra AlSayyad, Robert Armstrong +83

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is executing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as its prime mission, producing a series of data releases over the ten-year survey. Th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Development of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation Virtual Assistant for Enhanced Information Discovery at Rubin Observatory

Leanne P. Guy, Connor Yablonski, Aaron M. Meisner +5

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate petabytes of data through the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) over the next decade, enabling discoveries across a broad r…

astro-ph.IM2026

An overview of stray light findings and interpretation during on-sky commissioning of LSSTCam

Gabriele Rodeghiero, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alessio Taranto +78

Wide-field telescopes are intrinsically difficult to shield from unwanted stray and scattered light, while the search to identify sources of contaminating light is frequently a cha…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Laser-based metrology systems vs wavefront sensing techniques: a comparative overview between the Large Binocular Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory for the telescope alignment and collimation tracking

Luca Rosignoli, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Sandrine J. Thomas +26

This work presents a comparative overview of the collimation and alignment strategies employed by two leading 8m-class facilities: the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Vera…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 14 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

Towards millimagnitude Photometry at the Vera Rubin Observatory: Aerosol Monitoring with Quadband Dispersed Imaging

Eske M. Pedersen, Christopher W. Stubbs, Merlin Fisher-Levine +3

As the frontier of precision astronomical photometry continues to advance, correcting for time-variable atmospheric transmission becomes increasingly important. We describe an obse…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Instrument Signature Removal and Calibration Products for the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Andrés A. Plazas Malagón, Chris Waters, Alex Broughton +4

The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will conduct an unprecedented optical survey of the southern sky, imaging the entire available sky every few nights for 10…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

An Overview of the LSST Image Processing Pipelines

James Bosch, Yusra AlSayyad, Robert Armstrong +31

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

A collimated beam projector for precise telescope calibration

Michael Coughlin, T. M. C. Abbott, Kairn Brannon +7

The precise determination of the instrumental response function versus wavelength is a central ingredient in contemporary photometric calibration strategies. This typically entails…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 98 cited

The LSST Data Management System

Mario Jurić, Jeffrey Kantor, K-T Lim +62

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly c…

astro-ph2008★ 3.5k cited

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, 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…