6 papers
The "dark dips" phenomenon in the LSST Camera on-sky images
Claire Juramy, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier +4
When the commissioning camera (ComCam), and then the LSST Camera, started taking on-sky images at the Vera Rubin Observatory, some of the ITL STA3800 CCDs exhibited a previously un…
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…
Mechanical Studies of an Additional Light Baffle for the LSST Camera
Hannah Mary Margaret Pollek, Gabriele Rodeghiero, John Andrew +11
Commissioning the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory consisted of engineering operation and on-sky data-taking, initially with the Commissioning Camera followed by the commissioning…
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…
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…
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…