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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

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Rubin Observatory Target-of-Opportunity System in the First Year of Operations

Sean Patrick MacBride, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim +41

The NSF/DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a discovery machine, with unprecedented survey speed, which can be used to identify exotic astrophysical transients. In its prime mission,…

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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★ 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…

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Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

John Banovetz, Claire-Alice Hebert, Peter B. Denton +3

Supernovae are observed to occur approximately 1-2 times per century in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Based on historical records, however, the last core-collapse galactic supernova…

astro-ph.IM2024

'Weather' in the LSST Camera: Investigating Patterns in Differenced Flat Images

John Banovetz, Yousuke Utsumi, Joshua Meyers +3

During electro-optical testing of the camera for the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a unique low-signal pattern was found in differenced pairs…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, John Banovetz +86

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory is planned to begin in the Fall of 2025. The LSST survey cadence has been designed via a community-driven pr…