1 Abstract¶
This technote summarizes the groups and individuals making in-kind contributions to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory System Integration, Test, and Commissioning (SIT-Com) effort.
2 Introduction¶
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recognizes the individuals listed below as making non-financial contributions to the System Integration, Test, and Commissioning (SIT-Com) effort to facilitate an efficient transition to LSST Operations and increase the overall scientific output of the survey. By sharing their technical and scientific expertise, these individuals enhance and diversify the Project’s planned commissioning effort. The named participants will work directly alongside Rubin Observatory staff in completing their assignments and, in exchange, will have access to commissioning data products as they are acquired. The Project will not rely on the contributions from non-Rubin-staff team members to fulfill core construction requirements and operational readiness criteria.
The participating individuals were invited to join the Rubin Observatory SIT-Com effort through one of two programs:
US/Chile Commissioning Announcement of Opportunity Program, and
International In-Kind Contribution Program where the recipient group is the “Rubin Commissioning Team”.
Both types of contributions are being managed by Rubin Observatory as a combined resource. As indicated below, the in-kind contributions are organized into discrete groups of like interests and skills. Each contributing group has identified a point of contact to the Rubin Observatory Project; this group leader is responsible for management of the group and for the timely completion of assigned tasks. We anticipate that participants will engage in multiple aspects of commissioning according to their abilities, participation level, the Project schedule, and the designated priorities of Rubin Observatory.
The deep level of engagement described in these programs comes with specific rights and responsibilities, as outlined in Section 4.1 of the Announcement of Opportunity. Working as part of the SIT-Com team offers direct experience with the full chain from observations to final data products and data access tools that will be released to the science community, including the hardware, image properties, and Science Pipeline algorithms. Through their efforts, these individuals will enhance the readiness of Rubin Observatory and ultimately improve the science products that will be delivered to the global Rubin community.
No papers presenting novel scientific results based on commissioning data may be posted/submitted by anyone before the associated Data Preview release date (see Rubin Data Policy). The focus of the commissioning effort is on demonstrating operational readiness rather than realizing scientific discoveries with the commissioning data itself.
All members of the SIT-Com team are expected to follow the professional standards of conduct adopted by the Project.
Section 3.3 of this document lists several additional institutional contributions to Rubin Observatory construction based on agreements that were established prior to the formalization of the two programs mentioned above. These university-based groups are making contributions that are partially supported by external sources and are listed in this document together with other in-kind contributions for completeness.
Section 3.4 of this document lists the ex officio members of the Commissioning Team, as described in Section 3.2 of the Announcement of Opportunity.
3 Contributing Groups¶
Note
Any proposed updates to this list of contributions (e.g., for early career scientists moving between positions) should occur via a pull request with suggested revisions to the summary.yaml file in this repository.
3.1 International In-Kind Contribution Program¶
ESP-BCM-S2: Technical support in commissioning
Point of Contact: Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe
Members: Ignacio Sevilla, Cristobal Padilla, Otger Ballester, Jordi Arellano, Ricard Casas, Cristóbal Pío, Laura Toribio
FRA-INP-S6: Calibration hardware (CBP, flat screen, dome illumination, etc.)
Point of Contact: Jérémy Neveu
Members: Jérémy Neveu, Laurent Le Guillou, Eduardo Sepulveda, Sylvain Baumont
FRA-INP-S7: AuxTel support
Point of Contact: Marc Moniez
Members: Marc Moniez, Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne, Martin Monroy, Jérémy Neveu, Laurent Le Guillou, Joseph Chevalier
FRA-INP-S8: Commissioning at pixel level, data quality, and “on-sky” calibration
Point of Contact: Pierre Antilogus
Members: Dominique Boutigny, Sabine Elles, Thibault Guillemin, Fabio Hernandez, Fabrice Feinstein, Dominique Fouchez, Benjamin Racine, André Tilquin, Emmanuel Gangler, Fabrice Jammes, Nicoleta Pauna, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Claire Juramy, Aurélien Barrau, Johan Brégeon, Céline Combet, Marine Kuna, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Marina Ricci, Rance Solomon, Philippe Gris, Andrea Jeremie, Nathan Amouroux, Kelian Sommer, Corentin Ravoux, Yassine Faris, Cyrille Rosset
FRA-INP-S9: Science validation for object detection, weak lensing, and deblending
Point of Contact: Cyrille Doux
Members: Eric Aubourg, Cécile Roucelle, Alexandre Boucaud, Justine Zeghal, Biswajit Biswas, Axel Guinot, Marina Ricci, Manon Ramel
FRA-INP-S10: Camera hardware optimization
Point of Contact: Alexandre Boucaud
Members: Eric Aubourg, Alexandre Boucaud
ITA-INA-S21: Engineering support at telescope commissioning
Point of Contact: Felice Cusano
Members: Felice Cusano, Rodolfo Canestrari, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Enrico Giro
ITA-INA-S22: Image quality analysis
Point of Contact: Giuliana Fiorentino
Members: Rodolfo Canestrari, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Enrico Giro, Marcella Di Criscienzo, Giuliana Fiorentino, Davide Massari, Luciano Lanteri, Salvatore Savarese, Pietro Schipani, Vincenzo Ripepi, Filippo D’Ammando, Vincenzo Testa, Laura Schreiber, Vittorio Braga, Ricardo Sanchez
ITA-INA-S23: Instrument, telemetry, and science trend analysis and statistical characterization
Point of Contact: Giuseppe Riccio
Members: Giuseppe Riccio, Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia, Silvia Pietroni
JAP-JPG-S2: Commissioning support in Chile and data analysis
Point of Contact: Yousuke Utsumi
Members: Yousuke Utsumi, Naoki Yasuda
KOR-KAS-S1: KASI Fellows for commissioning observing support
Point of Contact: Narae Hwang
Members: Narae Hwang, Moo-Young Chun
UKD-UKD-S13: Support for active optics system commissioning and science validation for astrometry and photometry, galaxy clustering, low surface brightness science, multiwavelength data fusion, and strong gravitational lensing
Point of Contact: Graham Smith
Members: Aaron Watkins, Jon Loveday, Graham Smith, Tom Wilson, Dan Ryczanowski, Gavin Dalton, Will Sutherland, Tim Naylor, Raphael Shirley, Nicholas Walton, Boris Leistedt, Behnood Bandi
UKD-UKD-S7: Science validation for sensor characterization and PSF modelling
Point of Contact: Ian Shipsey
Members: Ian Shipsey, Jeff Tseng, Farrukh Azfar, Daniel Weatherill
3.2 US/Chile Community Engagement with Rubin Observatory Commissioning Effort Program¶
US/Chile-01: Observing support
Point of Contact: Louise Edwards
Members: Louise Edwards
US/Chile-02: Observing support and camera commissioning support in Chile
Point of Contact: Marcelle Soares-Santos
Members: Johnny Esteves, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Sean MacBride
US/Chile-03: Science validation of Solar System processing pipeline
Point of Contact: Siegfried Eggl
Members: Siegfried Eggl, Shirley Shah
US/Chile-04: Science validation of PSF characterization
Point of Contact: Mike Jarvis
Members: Mike Jarvis, Rachel Mandelbaum, Tianqing Zhang, Claire-Alice Hébert, Sid Mau, Pat Burchat, Josh Meyers, Aaron Roodman, Theo Schutt, Chris Stubbs, Elana Urbach, Eske Pedersen, Brodi Elwood, Dan Weatherill, Arun Kannawadi, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Xiangchong Li, Alexandra Amon, Chihway Chang, Andy Park, Jazmine Jefferson, Yuuki Omori
US/Chile-05: Science validation for weak lensing shear estimation and development of advanced image coaddition methods
Point of Contact: Matthew R. Becker
Members: Matthew R. Becker, Arun Kannawadi, Erin Sheldon, Michael Troxel, David Kirkby, Theo Schutt, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Andy Park
US/Chile-06: Science validation of galaxy photometry
Point of Contact: Brant Robertson
Members: Brant Robertson, Ryan Hausen, Hubert Bretonnière
US/Chile-07: Science validation for Solar System object linkage
Point of Contact: Matthew J Holman
Members: Matthew J. Holman, Zachary Murray
US/Chile-08: Science validation for astrometry
Point of Contact: Dave Monet
Members: Dave Monet, Mike Rich, John Gizis, Markus Rabus, Easton Honaker
US/Chile-09: Science validation for strong gravitational lensing and active optics system commissioning
Point of Contact: Simon Birrer
Members: Simon Birrer, Paul Schechter, Tansu Daylan, Xiangyu Huang
US/Chile-10: Observing support and science validation of time series photometry
Point of Contact: Markus Rabus
Members: Markus Rabus
US/Chile-11: Science validation for difference Image Analysis (DIA) including parameter / algorithm tuning, masking, and template generation
Point of Contact: Michael Wood-Vasey
Members: Michael Wood-Vasey, Shu Liu, Bruno Sánchez, Gautham Narayan, Amanda Wasserman, Rick Kessler, Bob Armstrong, Saurabh Jha, Federica Bianco, Tatiana Acero Cuellar, Benjamin Racine, Dominique Fouchez, Rob Knop, Maya Guy, Robert Hynes, Masao Sako, Aditya Inada Somasundaram, Jillian Paulin, Cole Meldorf
US/Chile-12: Science validation for sky background modeling and low surface brightness science
Point of Contact: Ian Dell’Antonio
Members: Ian Dell’Antonio, Jessica Nelson, Zacharias Escalante, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Alexie Leauthaud, Yuanyuan Zhang, Annika Peter, Anja von der Linden, Matt Kwiecien, Tesla Jeltema, Anthony Englert, Jiaxuan Li
US/Chile-13: Science validation for galaxy clustering analyses
Point of Contact: Eric Gawiser
Members: Andrina Nicola, Humna Awan, Eli Rykoff, Josh Meyers, Javi Sánchez, Rachel Mandelbaum, Anze Slosar, Irene Moskowitz, Heather Prince, Eric Gawiser
US/Chile-14: Science validation of photometric calibration for early science
Point of Contact: Elana Urbach
Members: Elana Urbach, Christopher Stubbs, Eske Pedersen, Saurabh Jha, Conor Larison, Douglas Tucker, Matt Wiesner, Daniel Perrefort, Michael Wood-Vasey, Gautham Narayan, Konstantin Malanchev, Melissa Butner, J. Allyn Smith
US/Chile-15: Support for commissioning data visualization and drill-down analysis
Point of Contact: David Kirkby
Members: David Kirkby, Matt Dowicz
US/Chile-16: Science validation of galaxy photometry and testing deblending algorithms in cluster fields
Point of Contact: Anja von der Linden
Members: Anja von der Linden, Ian Dell’Antonio, Zacharias Escalante, Shuang Liang, Radhakrishnan Srinivasan, Shenming Fu, Camille Avestruz, Ismael Mendoza, Simona Mei, Peter Melchior, Doug Clowe, Rémy Joseph, Cristobal Sifon, Benjamin Levine, Prakruth Adari
US/Chile-17: Investigation and mitigation of sensor anomalies for ComCam and LSSTCam detectors using calibration and on-sky data
Point of Contact: Simona Murgia
Members: Simona Murgia, Alex Broughton, Johanna Paine
US/Chile-18: Observatory performance analysis support and development of logging tools
Point of Contact: Felipe Barrientos
Members: Felipe Barrientos, Joaquin Hernandez
3.3 Institutional Contributions to Rubin Observatory Construction¶
Duke University: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Chris Walter
Members: Chris Walter, Bekah Polen, Michael Troxel
Harvard University: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Chris Stubbs
Members: Chris Stubbs, Elana Urbach, Eske Pedersen, Dillon Brout, Ali Kurmus, Aris Zhu, Larom Segev, Michelle Lin, Doug Yang, Kane Sjoberg, Meghan Marangola
University of Washington: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Andy Connolly
Members: Andrew Connolly, John Franklin Crenshaw, Dino Bektesevic, Colin Chandler, Sam Wyatt, Pedro Bernardinelli, Yuankun (David) Wang, Steven Stetzler, Jake Kurlander, Chester Li, Max West, Drew Oldag, Carl Christoffersen, Doug Branton, Karlo Mrakovcic, Audrey Budlong
University of Wisconsin-Madison: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Keith Bechtol
Members: Keith Bechtol, Peter Ferguson, Michael Martinez, Miranda Gorsuch
University of California, Davis: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Tony Tyson
Members: Tony Tyson, Craig Lage, Dan Polin, Adam Snyder, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Sam Schmidt
University of California, Santa Cruz: SIT-Com support
Point of Contact: Steve Ritz
Members: Steve Ritz, Adrian Shestakov, Duncan Wood
3.4 Ex Officio Contributions¶
Photometric Redshift Team: Implementation of shortlisted photo-z estimators to support early science
Point of Contact: Melissa Graham
Members: Eric Charles, John Franklin Crenshaw, Melissa DeLucchi, Gloria Fonseca Alvarez, Julia Gschwend, Qianjun (Ellen) Hang, Shahab Joudaki, Bryce Kalmbach, Olivia Lynn, Alex Malz, Drew Oldag, Markus Rau, Sam Schmidt, Ignacio Sevilla Noarbe, Tianqing (TQ) Zhang