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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,…
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…
Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects
James R. A. Davenport, Sofia Z. Sheikh, Steve Croft +17
With the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS, we have entered a new phase in the exploration of these long-predicted objects. Though confirmed disc…
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…
Satellite Constellation Avoidance with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
Jinghan Alina Hu, Meredith L. Rawls, Peter Yoachim +1
We investigate a novel satellite avoidance strategy to mitigate the impact of large commercial satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy S…
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products: Initial Recommendations
Leanne P. Guy, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Etienne Bachelet +117
This report is the result of a joint discussion between the Rubin and Euclid scientific communities. The work presented in this report was focused on designing and recommending an…
Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a pioneering process of community-focused experimental design
Federica B. Bianco, Željko Ivezić, R. Lynne Jones +43
Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed…
Optimising LSST Observing Strategy for Weak Lensing Systematics
Husni Almoubayyed, Rachel Mandelbaum, Humna Awan +6
The LSST survey will provide unprecedented statistical power for measurements of dark energy. Consequently, controlling systematic uncertainties is becoming more important than eve…
Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST
J. Anthony Tyson, Željko Ivezić, Andrew Bradshaw +8
We report studies on the mitigation of optical effects of bright low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites on Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). These…
Photometric Redshifts with the LSST II: The Impact of Near-Infrared and Near-Ultraviolet Photometry
Melissa L. Graham, Andrew J. Connolly, Winnie Wang +10
Accurate photometric redshift (photo-) estimates are essential to the cosmological science goals of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In this…
Scheduling Discovery in the 2020s
Eric C. Bellm, Eric B. Ford, Aaron Tohuvavohu +7
The 2020s will be the most data-rich decade of astronomy in history. As the scale and complexity of our surveys increase, the problem of scheduling becomes more critical. We must d…
Enabling catalog simulations of transient and variable sources based on LSST cadence strategies
Rahul Biswas, Scott F. Daniel, R. Hložek +2
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project will conduct a ten year multi-band survey starting in 2022. Observing strategies for this survey are being actively investigated,…
LSST Narrowband Filters
Peter Yoachim, Melissa Graham, Steven Bet +5
In this white paper, we present the scientific cases for adding narrowband optical filters to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). LSST is currently planning to observe the…
ALTSched: Improved Scheduling for Time-Domain Science with LSST
Daniel Rothchild, Christopher Stubbs, Peter Yoachim
Telescope scheduling is the task of determining the best sequence of observations (pointings and filter choices) for a survey system. Because it is computationally intractable to o…
Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey
Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan +33
Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collabo…
Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Deep Drilling Fields and other Special Programs
Daniel M. Scolnic, Michelle Lochner, Phillipe Gris +21
We review the measurements of dark energy enabled by observations of the Deep Drilling Fields and the optimization of survey design for cosmological measurements. This white paper…
A Framework for Telescope Schedulers: With Applications to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Elahesadat Naghib, Peter Yoachim, Robert J. Vanderbei +2
How ground-based telescopes schedule their observations in response to competing science priorities and constraints, variations in the weather, and the visibility of a particular p…
A Study of the Point Spread Function in SDSS Images
Bo Xin, Željko Ivezić, Robert H. Lupton +5
We use SDSS imaging data in passbands to study the shape of the point spread function (PSF) profile and the variation of its width with wavelength and time. We find that th…
Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, acros…
Initial Estimates on the Performance of the on the Detection of Eclipsing Binaries
Mark Wells, Andrej Prša, Lynne Jones +1
In this work we quantify the performance of on the detection of eclipsing binaries. We use observed binaries to create a large sample of simulated pseudo- bin…
The LSST Data Management System
Mario Jurić, Jeffrey Kantor, K-T Lim +62
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly c…
Optical selection of quasars: SDSS and LSST
Zeljko Ivezic, W. Niel Brandt, Xiaohui Fan +3
Over the last decade, quasar sample sizes have increased from several thousand to several hundred thousand, thanks mostly to SDSS imaging and spectroscopic surveys. LSST, the next-…