5 papers
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…
LightCurveLynx: Forward Modeling of Time-Domain Surveys with Application to ZTF SN Ia DR2
Mi Dai, Jeremy Kubica, Konstantin Malanchev +5
We present LightCurveLynx, a flexible and extensible software framework for end-to-end forward modeling time-domain light curves. Given the growing need for realistic simulations i…
AT2025ulz and S250818k: Investigating early time observations of a subsolar mass gravitational-wave binary neutron star merger candidate
Xander J. Hall, Malte Busmann, Hauke Koehn +32
Over the past LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA (LVK) observing runs, it has become increasingly clear that identifying the next electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) neutron st…
Using LSDB to enable large-scale catalog distribution, cross-matching, and analytics
Neven Caplar, Wilson Beebe, Doug Branton +9
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate an unprecedented volume of data, including approximately 60 petabytes of raw data and around 30 trillion observed sources, posing a sign…
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…