163 citations · 188 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for
20 papers
Early Telescope Throughput Results from the Collimated Beam Projector at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Nathan Amouroux, Parker Fagrelius, Thibault Guillemin +6
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST requires precise photometric calibration to meet its science goals, particularly for cosmological analyses based on Type Ia supernovae. The Colli…
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…
In Situ Measurements of the Reflectances of the LSSTCam Optics and Assessing the Impact of Optical Ghosts
Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Lee S. Kelvin +4
Optical ghosts are image artifacts caused by successive reflections of light between optical surfaces such as lenses, filters, and detectors. These artifacts are unavoidable due to…
Modeling of the diffuse background produced by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory M2 baffle scattered light
Alessio Taranto, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Luca Rosignoli +58
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, with its unprecedented field of view and fast focal ratio, will survey the entire sky every 3.5 nights. This unique capacity requires dealing with of…
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…
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…
photoD with Rubin's Data Preview 1: first stellar photometric distances and deficit of faint blue stars. Stellar distances with Rubin's DP1
L. Palaversa, E. Donev, Ž. Ivezić +96
Aims: We investigate the utility of Rubin's Data Preview 1 for estimating stellar number density profile in the Milky Way halo. Methods: Stellar broad-band near-UV to near-IR $ugri…
Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 with Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL)
T. Zhang, E. Charles, J. F. Crenshaw +87
We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and…
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…
Measuring Local Turbulence Along the Optical Path: Multi-beam Optical Seeing Sensor (MOSS)
Meghan A. Marangola, Elana K. Urbach, Christopher W. Stubbs
Deflection of light along the optical path is a major source of image degradation for ground-based telescopes. Methods have been developed to measure upper atmospheric seeing based…
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…
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-…
StarDICE III: Characterization of the photometric instrument with a Collimated Beam Projector
Thierry Souverin, Jérémy Neveu, Marc Betoule +18
The measurement of type Ia supernovae magnitudes provides cosmological distances, which can be used to constrain dark energy parameters. Large photometric surveys require a substan…
Directly Characterizing Dome Seeing: Differential Image Motion Sensor Using Multisources (DIMSUM)
Ali Kurmus, Elana Urbach, Christopher W. Stubbs
Image degradation impedes our ability to extract information from astronomical observations. One factor contributing to this degradation is ``dome seeing", the reduction in image q…
Measurement of telescope transmission using a Collimated Beam Projector
Thierry Souverin, Jérémy Neveu, Marc Betoule +17
The number of type Ia supernova observations will see a significant growth within the next decade, especially thanks to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time undertaken by the Vera R…
The Latest Constraints on Inflationary B-modes from the BICEP/Keck Telescopes
Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +92
For the past decade, the BICEP/Keck collaboration has been operating a series of telescopes at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station measuring degree-scale -mode polarization im…
How in situ atmospheric transmission can affect cosmological constraints from type Ia supernovae ?
Jérémy Neveu, Vincent Brémaud, Sébastien Bongard +3
The measurement of type Ia supernova colours in photometric surveys is the key to access to cosmological distances. But for future large surveys like the Large Survey of Space and…
An Estimator for Lensing Potential from Galaxy Number Counts
Viraj Nistane
We derive an estimator for the lensing potential from galaxy number counts which contains a linear and a quadratic term. We show that this estimator has a much larger signal-to-noi…
Probing spin dynamics on diamond surfaces using a single quantum sensor
Bo L. Dwyer, Lila V. H. Rodgers, Elana K. Urbach +13
Understanding the dynamics of a quantum bit's environment is essential for the realization of practical systems for quantum information processing and metrology. We use single nitr…
NMR Technique for Determining the Depth of Shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Linh M. Pham, Stephen J. DeVience, Francesco Casola +10
We demonstrate a robust experimental method for determining the depth of individual shallow Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond with nm uncertainty. We use a confocal…