University of Delaware
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Data Science Institute
federica b. bianco
she/her
Building a legacy: |
the LSST transient sky
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Building an unprecedented catalog of Solar System Objects
LSST Science Drivers
Mapping the Milky Way and Local Volume
Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Exploring the Transient Optical Sky
The LSST
Science Collaborations
A community of practice funded on principles of Equity, Inclusivity, Cooperation
An international community of practice built on principles of cooperation, equity, and solidarity
Rubin LSST Science Collaborations
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Transietsand variabel stars SC
True Novelties!
Rubin LSST Transients by the numbers
17B stars (x10) Ivezic+19
~10k SuperLuminous Supernovae (from ~200)Villar+ 2018
~400 strongly lensed SN Ia (from 10) Ardense+24
~3.3M SN II 580k SN Ibc Hložek+20
~300k SNIa (z<0.3) ~800k SNIa (z<1) "well observed"Griz+24
~50 kilonovae (from 2) Setzer+19, Andreoni+19 (+ ToO)
> 10 Interstellar Objects fom 2.... ?)
Grad student
Since 2019 we study the sky (and more!) with AI
Postdoc
NSF Award #2108841 Detecting and studying light echoes in the era of Rubin and Artificial Intelligence
NSF Award #2123264 Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Delaware and Mid-Atlantic Data Science Corps
NSF Award #2308016 Every Datapoint Counts: Atmosphere-aided Flare Studies in the Rubin era
NSF Award #2511639 Chance favors the prepared astrophysicists: forcing serendipitous discoveries in the era of big surveys and AI
NSF Graudate Student Research Fellowship Shar Daniels
NASA FINESST Fellowship Sid Chaini
Current sponsored programs in Astro (PI Bianco):
Above all, my group works on
democratizing knowledge, our Universe, and Artificial Intelligence
through
- use and production of public data
- innovation in AI
- demistification of AI
- broadening access to science
distributions of time gaps in 76 OpSims
Rubin LSST survey design
Introducing Rolling Cadence
Current plan: rolling 8 out of the 10 years
Rubin LSST survey design
30+ peer review papers accepted several more under review and in preparation https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0067-0049/page/rubin_cadence
newer simulations ->
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newer simulations ->
4 – 24 hour gaps between epochs will enable kilonova parameter estimation
Kilonovae in LSST Wide Fast Deep
Andreoni+ 2022a
Rubin ToO program
Who's left behind
"an ideology that focuses on individual accumulation, capital, and individuality, rather than on redistributing power or reconsidering existing structures."
Focusing on equipping individuals to overcome the barriers to success imposed by the status quo, instead of dismantling discriminatory structures
FEMMINIST
Feminist: the person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes
Beyonce'
what's in a name?
The first ground-based national US observatory named after a woman, Dr. Vera C. Rubin
is a word I am borrowing from Margaret Atwood to describe the fact that the future is us.
However loathsome or loving we are, so will we be.
Whereas utopias are the stuff of dream dystopias are the stuff of nightmares, ustopias are what we create together when we are wide awake
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