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astro-ph.IM2026

Rubin M1M3 Dynamic performance : stability and actuation during operations

HyeYun Park, Petr Kubánek, Kshitija Kelkar +20

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to commence the Legacy Survey of Space and Time with the fully integrated Simonyi Survey Telescope. To verify that the primary/tertiary (…

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

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Identification and photometric classification of extragalactic transients in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Data Preview 1

James Freeburn, Igor Andreoni, Kaylee M. de Soto +55

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon survey the southern sky, delivering a depth and sky coverage that is unprecedented in time domain astronomy. As part of commissioning, Data…

astro-ph.HE2025

Enabling Early Transient Discovery in LSST via Difference Imaging with DECam

Yize Dong, Kaylee de Soto, V. Ashley Villar +58

We present SLIDE, a pipeline that enables transient discovery in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), using archival images from the Da…

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.IM2013★ 145 cited

Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review I: Design, trade-offs and integration

Francois Rigaut, Benoit Neichel, Maxime Boccas +27

The Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) at the Gemini South telescope in Cerro Pach{ó}n is the first sodium-based multi-Laser Guide Star (LGS) adaptive optics syst…

astro-ph2008★ 3.5k cited

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…