Chair: Keith Bechtol

An overview of the process to commission and scientifically validate the Rubin Observatory system in advance of Operations and the start of the LSST.

Please contact the session chair with any questions, or if you'd like to volunteer to speak or help with this session.

Contributed talks

• Camera focal plane performance: latest results before shipment, Thibault Guillemin

Draft Agenda

• LSSTCam commissioning at the summit – Thibault Guillemin, Yousuke Utsumi, Aaron Roodman (20 min)
• ComCam on-sky commissioning
  • Overview / timeline – Kevin Reil, Robert Lupton (5 min)
  • ComCam AOS commissioning plans – Josh Meyers (10 min)
  • Image Quality – Elana Urbach (5 min)
  • Science Programs – Keith Bechtol (5 min)
• Science pipelines commissioning + science verification and validation workflow – Yusra AlSayyad, Colin Slater, Keith Bechtol (10 min)
• Guidelines for preparing science performance verification artifacts – Holger Drass, Keith Bechtol (10 min)
• Information sharing during commissioning – Keith Bechtol (10 min)
• Discussion / Q&A (15 min)