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most citedPredictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

39 citations · 64 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

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.EP2026

Tails and Trails: Comets and NEOs Survive Co-addition in Rubin Early Data Preview 2

Colin Orion Chandler, Joseph Murtagh, Ian Chow +11

We identify effectively single-visit imaging hidden within the deep co-added images of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2 (EDP2). These shallow regions cont…

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.EP2026★ 2 cited

Predictions of Imminent Earth Impactors Discovered by LSST

Ian Chow, Mario Jurić, R. Lynne Jones +5

Imminent impactors are natural bodies discovered in space before impacting the Earth. They provide a rare opportunity to characterize individual near-Earth objects (NEOs) in great…

astro-ph.EP2026

Assessing the Vera Rubin Observatory's Ability to Discover Asteroid Impactors Before They Collide with Earth

Qifeng Cheng, Daniel Scolnic, Jacob A. Kurlander +2

Asteroid impactors larger than ~10 m, from Chelyabinsk-scale airburst and Tunguska-scale events to >300 m continental threats, remain the dominant planetary-defense risk. While the…

astro-ph.EP2025

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Neptune Trojans

Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Pedro H. Bernardinelli +15

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), beginning full operations in late 2025, will dramatically transform solar system science by vastly e…

astro-ph.EP2025

Rotational Light-curve Recovery and Predictions of the LSST Yield of Hildas

Alexander J. Fleming, Jacob A. Kurlander, Dmitrii E. Vavilov +4

The Hilda population occupies the stable 3:2 mean-motion resonance of Jupiter and provides a window into solar system evolution, including collisional processes. The National Scien…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

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-…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 39 cited

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Jacob A. Kurlander, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Megan E. Schwamb +18

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new 8m-class survey facility presently being commissioned in Chile, expected to begin the 10yr-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST…

astro-ph.EP2025

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs

Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Stephanie R. Merritt +16

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern nigh…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Stephanie R. Merritt, Grigori Fedorets, Megan E. Schwamb +20

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to revolutionize solar system astronomy. Unprecedented in scale, this ten-year wide…

astro-ph.EP2025

A Pan-STARRS Search for Distant Planets: Part 1

Matthew J. Holman, Kevin J. Napier, Matthew J. Payne +1

We present a search for distant planets in Pan-STARRS1. We calibrated our search by injecting an isotropic control population of synthetic detections into Pan-STARRS1 source catalo…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation

Matthew J. Holman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Megan E. Schwamb +14

Sorcha is a solar system survey simulator built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and future large-scale wide-field surveys. Over the ten-y…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Link Between White Dwarf Pulsars and Polars: Multiwavelength Observations of the 9.36-Minute Period Variable Gaia22ayj

Antonio C. Rodriguez, Kareem El-Badry, Pasi Hakala +30

White dwarfs (WDs) are the most abundant compact objects, and recent surveys have suggested that over a third of WDs in accreting binaries host a strong (B 1 MG) magnetic…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1

Jacob A. Kurlander, Matthew J. Holman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli +3

To prepare for the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we develop methods for quantifying the selection function of a wide-field survey as a function of all six orbital param…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Expected Impact of Rubin Observatory LSST on NEO Follow-up

Tom Wagg, Mario Juric, Peter Yoachim +6

We simulate and analyse the contribution of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to the rate of discovery of Near Earth Object (NEO) candidates, their submi…