The Rubin Research Bytes (RRB) session consists of 10 parallel Zoom meetings in which four presenters will give three minute flash talks, followed by a ~10 minute moderated Q&A. At 30 minutes, attendees switch to a different Zoom meeting room and the flash talks and Q&A process repeats for another 30 minutes. The entire session is 60 minutes long. All presenters will give their talks twice in the same Zoom room, and all attendees will be able to see and discuss eight flash talks live, in total, by visiting two Zoom rooms. The organizers of this session, Pat Burchat and Fed Bianco, thank you all very much for participating, and welcome you to reach out with comments or questions about the RRB session via email or Slack. Recordings of all the RRB flash talk sessions are now available -- find links to recordings for all sessions below.

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View All Abstracts by Session (or click on individual session headers, below)

Session A. Camera

View Recording -- Slack Conversation -- view slide deck

Chairs: Steve Ritz and Margaux Lopez

• Pinhole Projector Possibilities, Andrew Bradshaw
• Characterization of Sensor Effects in the LSST Camera, Adam Snyder
• Camera Commissioning, HyeYun Park
• CCD gate width and the brighter-fatter effect, Dan Weatherill

Session B. Cosmology

View Recording -- go to Slack channel -- view slide deck

Chairs: Kara Ponder and Bryce Kalmbach

• Emulating galaxy-galaxy blending in LSST 3x2pt analysis, Erfan Nourbakhsh
• Improving Galaxy Photometric Redshifts Using Machine Learning Post-Processing Towards an LSST Platinum Sample, Adam Broussard
• Augmenting machine learning photometric redshifts with Gaussian mixture models, Peter Hatfield
• Photometric redshifts with DESC, Alex Malz 

Session C. Dark Matter and Low Surface Brightness

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Chairs: Lee Kelvin and Keith Bechtol

• Using the Rubin LSST Science Pipelines to process deep DECam exposures from the LoVoCCS Survey, Shenming Fu
• Distant Milky Way satellites, Matias Blana
• The origin of low-surface-brightness galaxies in the dwarf regime, Ryan Jackson
• Stacking the low surface brightness light envelopes of galaxies and intra-cluster light in DES data, Yuanyuan Zhang

Session D. Deep Imaging Techniques and Data Access

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Chairs: Yusra AlSayyad and Eli Rykoff

• Exploring data model and data access needs for simulated Rubin LSST data sets, Yao-Yuan Mao
• Astronomy and new platforms with Rubin, Silvana Acco
• Weak Lensing and Cluster Cosmology, Lucie Baumont
• Preparing Rubin Observatory for the detection of light echoes with AI, Xiaolong Li

Session E. Galaxy Morphology

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Chairs: Sugata Kaviraj and Benne Holwerda

• Using the Vera Rubin Observatory for identifying cosmological-scale patterns of parity violation in galaxy spin directions, Lior Shamir
• The sizes of galaxies in an era of ultra-deep imaging, Nushkia Chamba
• Morphological measurements with Discrete Radius Ellipticals (DRE), Cristóbal Moya
• Key results using a new visual morphology catalog of ~113,600 galaxies from SDSS and the NOAO Legacy Survey, Preethi Nair

Session F. Minimizing Systematics

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Chairs: Sandrine Thomas and Dan Scolnic

• The Effect of Unresolved Contaminant Objects on the Cross-Matching of Photometric Catalogues, Tom J Wilson
• Multiwavelength astronomy with Rubin and VISTA imaging, Raphael Shirley
• PWV Impact on MzLS Zeropoints and Color, Michael Wood-Vasey
• Predicting how exposure time affects the Rubin Observatory point-spread function, Claire-Alice Hebert

Session G. Survey Strategy and Solar System Science

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Chairs: Lynne Jones and Phil Marshal

• SNAPS: The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System, David Trilling
• Chasing the loudest gravitational waves sources: the LSST perspective, Andjelka Kovacevic
• Optimizing the LSST WFD for Dark Energy Science, Humna Awan
• Unknowns in the Rubin Observatory LSST era, Fabio Ragosta

Session H. Transient Classification

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Chairs: Emille Ishida and Márcio Catelan

• A spectroscopically-complete sample of bright ZTF transients, Daniel Perley
• The ALeRCE light curve classifier, Paula Sánchez Sáez
• Anomaly detection in ZTF DR3, Konstantin Malanchev
• SuperRAENN: A New Photometric Classifier, Ashley Villar

Session I. AGN and Microlensing

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Chairs: Franz Bauer and Sophie Reed

• Feature Definition and Classification of Microlensing Lightcurves, Somayeh Khakpash
• Hunting gravitational wave black holes with microlensing, Natasha Abrams
• XMM-SERVS: A Large XMM-Newton X-ray Survey of the LSST Deep-Drilling Fields, William Brandt
• Time domain mapping of light echoes from the core of AGN, Dragana Ilic

Session J. Supernova Science

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Chairs: Clare Saunders and Chien-Hsiu Lee

• Learning high-resolution supernova lightcurves from ensembles of broadband photometry, John Franklin Crenshaw
• GHOST: A Database of 16k Supernova Host Galaxies, Alex Gagliano
• Identifying 91bg-like Supernovae with VRO-LSST, Daniel Perrefort
• One year of young supernova discoveries with the ALeRCE broker, Francisco Forster

All Recordings On YouTube:

• A Camera -- https://youtu.be/jzfnVanVBcs
• B Cosmology --  https://youtu.be/eBgxXRHJAsM
• C Dark Matter and Low Surface Brightness -- https://youtu.be/4WCFywjfy2w
• D Deep Imaging and Data Access --  https://youtu.be/SM_3Ji0Es8o
• E Galaxy Morphology -- https://youtu.be/5DXH-B3dasU
• F Minimizing Systematics -- https://youtu.be/pGwLAHMO_j4 

• G Survey Strategy and Solar System Science -- https://youtu.be/5is4ahXzF6I
• H Transient Classification -- https://youtu.be/6P-OxaR3trk
• I AGN and Microlensing --  https://youtu.be/c4u7bS-6CHE
• J Supernova Science --  https://youtu.be/8JqW1wi6GPw

All Slack Channel Names

• #day2-tue-slot2-rrb-general
• #day2-tue-slot2a-rrb-camera
• #day2-tue-slot2b-rrb-cosmology
• #day2-tue-slot2c-rrb-dm-and-lsb
• #day2-tue-slot2d-rrb-deep-imaging-and-data-access
• #day2-tue-slot2e-rrb-galaxy-morphology
• #day2-tue-slot2f-rrb-minimizing-systematics
• #day2-tue-slot2g-rrb-survey-strategy-and-solar-system
• #day2-tue-slot2h-rrb-transient-classification
• #day2-tue-slot2i-rrb-agn-and-microlensing
• #day2-tue-slot2j-rrb-sn-science

Instructions for Attendees: Decide in advance which two parallel Zoom meetings you are going to join, and in which order. Feel free to view the slides the night before to prepare constructive questions for our presenters. Join the Slack channel for the parallel sessions you're interested in. During the session's Q&A period, pose your question in the Zoom chat or the Slack channel and wait to be invited to unmute by the session chair. Watch the video recordings or view the slide decks from parallel sessions you were unable to attend live. Continue discussions with presenters and attendees in the associated Slack channels.

Instructions for Presenters: Find your parallel Zoom meeting in the list below, and add your slides to the linked common deck by Mon Aug 10, at noon (i.e., about 24h prior to the session). During the Zoom meeting, the chair will screen-share the slide deck and you will have 3 minutes to speak to your slides. Then all four presenters will take questions from attendees (i.e., panel-style Q&A). Please join the associated Slack channel, where attendees may ask you follow-up questions if the session time runs short.

Instructions for Zoom meeting Chairs: The two chairs will both remain in the same Zoom room for the full hour. Please find your assigned session in the list below. Review the contributed slides on Mon Aug 10 after noon (i.e., about 24h prior to the session) to ensure all the presenters' slides are assembled and in the correct order. Ensure that you can both screen-share the common slide deck during the session (use the "Prep Room" described on the "Connecting" webpage). Be prepared to speak to the content of the first three introductory slides, and to screen share the communal deck throughout all the flash talks. Ensure you have a way to time the 3 minute flash talks. Join the associated Slack channel. One chair should be primarily responsible for screen-sharing the slides and timing, and the other for identifying attendees with questions (via the Zoom chat and Slack channel) and inviting them to unmute to ask their question.

Explicit Agenda to Avoid Potential Confusion:

• (10:15am, all chairs and presenters join the Zoom room, get organized)
• 10:30am, ~5 minute welcome, introduction, explanation by session co-chairs
• 10:35am, ~12 minutes of four back-to-back 3-min flash talks by presenters
• 10:47am, ~10 minutes panel-style Q&A between attendees and presenters
• 11:00am, ~2 minutes for attendees to switch rooms
• 11:02am, ~3 minute welcome by session co-chairs