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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…
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…
Investigation and Mitigation of a Prominent Off-Axis Stray Light Path in Rubin Observatory Commissioning
Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alessio Taranto, Gabriele Rodeghiero +12
The "scratched tape" stray light feature is the most prominent and prevalent stray light artifact identified during the commissioning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The scratche…
In Situ Measurements of the Reflectances of the LSSTCam Optics and Assessing the Impact of Optical Ghosts
Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Lee S. Kelvin +4
Optical ghosts are image artifacts caused by successive reflections of light between optical surfaces such as lenses, filters, and detectors. These artifacts are unavoidable due to…
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…
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…
The Galaxy Zoo Catalogs for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Survey
Benne W. Holwerda, Clayton Robertson, Kyle Cook +16
Galaxy Zoo is an online project to classify morphological features in extra-galactic imaging surveys with public voting. In this paper, we compare the classifications made for two…
Merian: A Wide-Field Imaging Survey of Dwarf Galaxies at z~0.06-0.10
Shany Danieli, Erin Kado-Fong, Song Huang +32
We present the Merian Survey, an optical imaging survey optimized for studying the physical properties of bright star-forming dwarf galaxies. Merian is carried out with two medium-…
Bright Star Subtraction Pipeline for LSST: Phase one report
Amir E. Bazkiaei, Lee S. Kelvin, Sarah Brough +3
We present the phase one report of the Bright Star Subtraction (BSS) pipeline for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This pipeline is designed…
Bright Star Subtraction Pipeline for LSST: Progress Review
Amir E. Bazkiaei, Lee S. Kelvin, Sarah Brough +3
We present the Bright Star Subtraction (BSS) pipeline for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This pipeline generates an extended PSF model usin…
Strategies for optimal sky subtraction in the low surface brightness regime
A. E. Watkins, S. Kaviraj, C. C. Collins +5
The low surface brightness (LSB) regime ( mag arcsec) comprises a vast, mostly unexplored discovery space, from dwarf galaxies to the diffuse interstellar…
An almost dark galaxy with the mass of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Mireia Montes, Ignacio Trujillo, Ananthan Karunakaran +9
Almost Dark Galaxies are objects that have eluded detection by traditional surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The low surface brightness of these galaxies ((…
The Merian Survey: Design, Construction, and Characterization of a Filter Set Optimized to Find Dwarf Galaxies and Measure their Dark Matter Halo Properties with Weak Lensing
Yifei Luo, Alexie Leauthaud, Jenny Greene +28
The Merian survey is mapping 850 degrees of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP) wide layer with two medium-band filters on the 4-meter Victor M. Bla…
The Loneliest Galaxies in the Universe: A GAMA and GalaxyZoo Study on Void Galaxy Morphology
Lori E. Porter, Benne W. Holwerda, Sandor Kruk +5
The large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist…
Sky Subtraction in an Era of Low Surface Brightness Astronomy
Lee S. Kelvin, Imran Hasan, J. Anthony Tyson
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Wide-Fast Deep (WFD) sky survey will reach unprecedented surface brightness depths over tens of thousands of square degrees. Surface brightness photom…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Galaxy Morphology in the Green Valley, Prominent rings and looser Spiral Arms
Dominic Smith, Lutz Haberzettl, L. E. Porter +15
Galaxies broadly fall into two categories: star-forming (blue) galaxies and quiescent (red) galaxies. In between, one finds the less populated ``green valley". Some of these galaxi…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Bulge-disk decomposition of KiDS data in the nearby universe
Sarah Casura, Jochen Liske, Aaron S. G. Robotham +10
We derive single Sérsic fits and bulge-disk decompositions for 13096 galaxies at redshifts z < 0.08 in the GAMA II equatorial survey regions in the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) g, r a…
Faro: A framework for measuring the scientific performance of petascale Rubin Observatory data products
Leanne P. Guy, Keith Bechtol, Jeffrey L. Carlin +14
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will advance many areas of astronomy over the next decade with its unique wide-fast-deep multi-color imaging survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Ti…
Galapagos-2/Galfitm/GAMA -- multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: separating the properties of spheroid and disk components in modern surveys
Boris Häußler, Marina Vika, Steven P. Bamford +6
We present the capabilities of Galapagos--2 and Galfitm in the context of fitting 2-component profiles to galaxies, on the way to providing complete multi-band, multi-component fit…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map Application on Nearby Galaxies
B. W. Holwerda, Dominic Smith, Lori Porter +12
Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. W…
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions
Simon P. Driver, Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron S. G. Robotham +67
In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earli…
North Ecliptic Pole merging galaxy catalogue
W. J. Pearson, L. E. Suelves, S. C. -C. Ho +17
We aim to generate a catalogue of merging galaxies within the 5.4 sq. deg. North Ecliptic Pole over the redshift range . To do this, imaging data from the Hyper Supr…
Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies
Mike Walmsley, Chris Lintott, Tobias Geron +15
We present Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: detailed visual morphological classifications for Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey images of galaxies within the SDSS DR8 footprint. Deeper DECaLS ima…
The Growth of Intracluster Light in XCS-HSC Galaxy Clusters from
Kate E. Furnell, Chris A. Collins, Lee S. Kelvin +14
We estimate the Intracluster Light (ICL) component within a sample of 18 clusters detected in XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) data using deep ( 26.8 mag) Hyper Suprime Cam Subaru St…