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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.IM2026

The Cross-Survey Decade: A Call to Action

Gioia Rau, Robert Benjamin, Federica Bianco +24

By 2027, three flagship wide-field surveys will be operating simultaneously from ground and space, observing overlapping sky and representing more than $6 billion in US and Europea…

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,…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

GOATS: The next generation software infrastructure for time-domain astronomy at Gemini/NOIRLab. Application to alerts from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Monika Soraisam, Louis Avner, Miguel Gómez +38

Time-domain and multimessenger astronomy (MMA/TDA) targets demand rapid-response follow-up observations. In many cases, it is the only way to make discoveries and advance our under…

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.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.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…

astro-ph.IM2024

Maximizing the scientific return of Roman and Rubin with a joint wide-sky observing strategy

Federica B. Bianco, Robert Blum, Andrew Connolly +6

This work presents the case for a single-band LSST-matched depth Roman Community Survey over the footprint of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) W…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem

The 2023 Windows on the Universe Workshop White Paper Working Group, T. Ahumada, J. E. Andrews +43

In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain a…