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a new US-Chilean facility located in Chile
a joint project of NSF & DOE operates under NOIRlab
Operations start late 2023
what's in a name?
The first ground-based national US observatory named after a woman, Dr. Vera C. Rubin
VRO
In the first 10 years of its life Rubin will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time or LSST
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Rubin Observatory LSST
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LSST Science Drivers
Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Rubin Observatory LSST
image credit ESO-Gaia
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LSST Science Drivers
Mapping the Milky Way and Local Volume via resolved stellar population
Rubin Observatory LSST
An unprecedented inventory of the Solar System from potentially hazardous asteroid to the distant Oort Cloud
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LSST Science Drivers
Rubin Observatory LSST
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LSST Science Drivers
image credit: ESA-Justyn R. Maund
Exploring the Transients and Variable Universe
Rubin Observatory LSST
No Compromises!
Incredible instrumentation
3.2 Gigapixel camera = 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_iscV1uA0
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Rubin Observatory LSST
No Compromises!
Incredible instrumentation
3.2 Gigapixel camera = 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_iscV1uA0
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Rubin Observatory LSST
Exquisite image quality
all over the sky
over and over again
SDSS image circa 2000
HSC image circa 2018
when you look at the sky at this resolution and this depth...
everything is blended and everything is changing
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Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin Observatory LSST
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world public!
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin LSST will deliver 10M alerts each night about anything that changed in the southern hemisphere sky: supernovae, merging stars, transiting planets, gravity bendind light and magnifying stars...
to anyone in the world by a set of selected "brokers" that will work with Rubin to accomplish this incredible goal!
the data belongs to the people!
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within 60 second of detection!
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Astronomy’s Discovery Chain
Discovery Engine
10M alerts/night
Community Brokers
target observation managers
the astronomy discovery chain
Big data and time domain astrophysics
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Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin LSST = Astro + DataScience
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin will see ~1000 SN every night!
A lot of them will be too faint to study with traditional means, particularly spectra.
Lots of emphasis in new analysis techniques that rely on "Big Data"
Rubin LSST = Astro + DataScience
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Dark Energy Science Collaboration
(DESC)
+
Transients and Variable
Science Collaboration
(TVS SC)
Rubin Observatory LSST
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LIGO/VIRGO area of localization ~100deg square
Ursa Minor contains 255.86 square degrees
S190425z 18% of the sky localization
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Rubin can find the electromagnetic counterpart of Gravitational Wave and Neutrino discoveries better than any survey!
LIGO/VIRGO area of localization ~100deg square
Ursa Minor contains 255.86 square degrees
Rubin FoV 10 deg
S190425z 18% of the sky localization
Rubin Observatory LSST
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AT 2017gfo
optical counterpart we have identified near NGC 4993 is associated with GW170817
M. Soares-Santos+2017
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9059
(but also Abbott+2017, Drout+2017...... )
6 teams (One-Meter, Two Hemispheres (1M2H), DLT40, VISTA, Master, DECam, Las Cumbres Observatory imaged the same new source independently in a 90-minute interval. The first to detect optical light associated with the collision was the 1M2H team running the Swope Supernova Survey, which found it in an image of NGC 4993 taken 10 hours and 52 minutes after the GW event by the 1-meter diameter (3.3 ft) Swope Telescope operating in the near infrared at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. They were also the first to announce it, naming their detection SSS 17a in a circular issued 12h26m post-event. The new source was later given an official International Astronomical Union (IAU) designation of AT 2017gfo.
Rubin Observatory LSST
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AT 2017gfo
optical counterpart we have identified near NGC 4993 is associated with GW170817
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9059 M. Soares-Santos+2017
(but also Abbott+2017, Drout+2017...... )
Evidence that mergers of NS are significant sources of r-process elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum, which was previously attributed exclusively to supernova explosions
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Who is Rubin? We are Rubin!
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Who is Rubin? We are Rubin!
The Rubin Organization is almost as complex as the Universe it will explore!
8 Science Collaborations
think about us as an army of volunteers that thinks Rubin LSST will be amazing and transformational and are investing in preparing to use its data and helping optimize the Observatory choices
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
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8 SCs - 5 continents - 1500 people - 25 countries
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
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The Rubin Organization is almost as complex as the Universe it will explore!
8 SCs - 5 continents - 1500 people - 25 countries
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
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8 SCs - 5 continents - 1500 people - 25 countries
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
We aspire to be an inclusive, equitable, and ultimately just group and we are working with renewed vigor in the wake of the recent event that exposed inequity and racism in our society to turning this aspiration into action.
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
Rubin Observatory LSST
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Who is Rubin? We are Rubin!
The Rubin Organization is almost as complex as the Universe it will explore!
Rubin Observatory LSST
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https://www.lsst.org/
https://www.lsst.org/scientists/science-collaborations
https://www.lsstcorporation.org/
RubinAAS237MMATDAMediaWS
By federica bianco
RubinAAS237MMATDAMediaWS
Rubin Observatory LSST presentation for AAS237 MultiMessenger Astronomy and Time Domain Astronomy Media
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