6 papers
Skipper CCD readout time optimization for astronomical applications
Johannes Wüthrich, Andrin Fazan, Sean MacBride +1
Skipper CCDs enable the reduction of CCD readout noise by non-destructively measuring the individual pixel charge packets multiple times. This readout noise reduction has attracted…
The "dark dips" phenomenon in the LSST Camera on-sky images
Claire Juramy, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier +4
When the commissioning camera (ComCam), and then the LSST Camera, started taking on-sky images at the Vera Rubin Observatory, some of the ITL STA3800 CCDs exhibited a previously un…
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 On-Sky Performance of the LSST Camera CCD Array
Sean Patrick MacBride, Aaron Roodman, Stuart Marshall +89
The focal plane of the LSST Camera contains 189 individual science CCDs, arranged into 21 raft tower modules, along with 4 wavefront and 8 guider CCDs located in 4 additional corne…
Characterizing robotic positioners under the influence of changing gravity vectors for future spectroscopic surveys
Johannes Wüthrich, Guandi Zhao, Banan Yamani +5
Future (Stage V) spectroscopic surveys intend to accurately map billions of galaxies. To accomplish this goal, these surveys will employ highly multiplexed focal planes composed of…
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…