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20072026
most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

7.7k citations · 26.4k across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

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.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.EP2024★ 5 cited

Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science: Incremental Templates in Year 1

James E. Robinson, Megan E. Schwamb, R. Lynne Jones +13

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is due to commence the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the end of 2025. To detect transient/variable sources and identify solar syst…

astro-ph.GA2021

Gaia EDR3 confirms that Westerlund 1 is closer and older than previously thought

Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +6

Using {\it Gaia} Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) parallaxes and Bayesian inference, we infer a parallax of the Westerlund 1 (Wd1) cluster. We find a parallax of mas cor…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 78 cited

Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST

J. Anthony Tyson, Željko Ivezić, Andrew Bradshaw +8

We report studies on the mitigation of optical effects of bright low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites on Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). These…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 81 cited

Dimensionality Reduction of SDSS Spectra with Variational Autoencoders

Stephen K. N. Portillo, John K. Parejko, Jorge R. Vergara +1

High resolution galaxy spectra contain much information about galactic physics, but the high dimensionality of these spectra makes it difficult to fully utilize the information the…