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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 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 Commissioning Team are expected to follow the professional standards of conduct adopted by the Project.
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: Dr. Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe
Technical Support in Commissioning
Ignacio Sevilla, Cristobal Padilla, Otger Ballester, Alexandre Pérez, Jordi Arellano, Ricard Casas
FRA-INP-S6: Dr. Jérémy Neveu
Calibration hardware (CBP, flat screen, dome illumination, etc.)
Jérémy Neveu, Laurent Le Guillou, Eduardo Sepulveda, Sylvain Baumont
FRA-INP-S7: Dr. Marc Moniez
AuxTel support
Marc Moniez, Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne, Martin Monroy, Jérémy Neveu, Laurent Le Guillou
FRA-INP-S8: Dr. Pierre Antilogus
Commissioning at pixel level, data quality and “On-Sky” calibration
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
FRA-INP-S9: Dr. Cyrille Doux
Object detection, weak lensing, and deblending
Eric Aubourg, Cécile Roucelle, Alexandre Boucaud, Justine Zeghal, Biswajit Biswas, Axel Guinot, Marina Ricci
FRA-INP-S10: Dr. Alexandre Boucaud
Camera hardware optimization
Eric Aubourg, Cécile Roucelle, Alexandre Boucaud, Justine Zeghal, Biswajit Biswas, Axel Guinot, Marina Ricci
ITA-INA-S21: Dr. Felice Cusano
Engineering support at Telescope commissioning
Felice Cusano, Rodolfo Canestrari, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Enrico Giro
ITA-INA-S22: Dr. Giuliana Fiorentino
Image quality analysis
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
ITA-INA-S23: Dr. Giuseppe Riccio
Instrument, telemetry, and science trend analysis and statistical characterization
Giuseppe Riccio, Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia
JAP-JPG-S2: Dr. Yutaka Komiyama
TBD
TBD
KOR-KAS-S1: Dr. Narae Hwang
Observing support
Narae Hwang, Moo-Young Chun
UKD-UKD-S13: Graham Smith
Support for active optics system commissioning and science validation
Aaron Watkins, Jon Loveday, Graham Smith, Tom Wilson, Dan Ryczanowski, Gavin Dalton, Will Sutherland, Tim Naylor, Raphael Shirley, Nicholas Walton, Boris Leistedt
UKD-UKD-S7: Prof Ian Shipsey
Science validation for sensor characterization and PSF modelling
Ian Shipsey, Jeff Tseng, Farrukh Azfar, Daniel Weatherill
3.2 US/Chile Community Engagement with Rubin Observatory Commissioning Effort Program¶
US/Chile-01: Louise Edwards
Observing support
Louise Edwards
US/Chile-02: Marcelle Soares-Santos
Observing support and camera commissioning support in Chile
Johnny Esteves, Marcelle Soares-Santos
US/Chile-03: Siegfried Eggl
Science validation of Solar System Processing pipeline
Siegfried Eggl, Shirley Shah
US/Chile-04: Mike Jarvis
Science validation of PSF characterization
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
US/Chile-05: Matthew R. Becker
Science validation for weak lensing shear estimation and development of advanced image coaddition methods
Matthew R. Becker, Arun Kannawadi, Erin Sheldon, Michael Troxel, David Kirkby, Theo Schutt, Erfan Nourbakhsh
US/Chile-06: Brant Robertson
Science validation of galaxy photometry
Brant Robertson, Ryan Hausen
US/Chile-07: Matthew J Holman
Science validation for Solar System object linkage
Matthew J. Holman, Zachary Murray
US/Chile-08: Dave Monet
Science validation for astrometry
Dave Monet, Mike Rich, John Gizis, Markus Rabus
US/Chile-09: Simon Birrer
Science validation for strong gravitational lensing
Simon Birrer, Paul Schechter, Tansu Daylan
US/Chile-10: Markus Rabus
Observing support and science validation of time series photometry
Markus Rabus
US/Chile-11: Michael Wood-Vasey
Science validation for difference Image Analysis (DIA) including parameter / algorithm tuning, masking, and template generation
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
US/Chile-12: Ian Dell’Antonio
Science validation for sky background modeling and low-surface brightness science
Ian Dell’Antonio, Stefanie Hersey, Zacharias Escalante, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Alexie Leauthaud, Yuanyuan Zhang, Annika Peter, Anja von der Linden, Matt Kwiecien, Tesla Jeltema
US/Chile-13: Eric Gawiser
Science validation for galaxy clustering analyses
Andrina Nicola, Humna Awan, Eli Rykoff, Josh Meyers, Javi Sánchez, Rachel Mandelbaum, Anze Slosar, Irene Moskowitz, Adam Broussard, Eric Gawiser
US/Chile-14: Elana Urbach
Science validation of photometric calibration for early science
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: David Kirkby
Support for commissioning data visualization and drill-down analysis
David Kirkby, Matt Dowicz
US/Chile-16: Anja von der Linden
Science validation of galaxy photometry and testing deblending algorithms in cluster fields
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
US/Chile-17: Simona Murgia
Investigation and mitigation of sensor anomalies for ComCam and LSSTCam detectors using calibration and on-sky data
Simona Murgia, Alex Broughton, Johanna Paine