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Project & Community Workshop 2023
7-11, August 2023 | Marriott University Park Tucson | Tucson, AZ
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Producing weak lensing shear catalogs from LSST Science Pipelines
Weak gravitational lensing is a key science goal for LSST. The shear plans for Rubin are getting slowly more concrete and involves a lot of stakeholder conversations between the community (the Dark Energy Science Collaboration in particular) who develop the algorithms and the Project (Algorithms & Pipelines/Data Management in particular) who will implement and produce the data products. The state-of-the-art shear measurement algorithms like metadetection (Sheldon et. al, 2020) require multiple detection catalogs to produce unbiased estimates of shear and thus require special processing steps and some deviations from the rest of the science pipelines. This session is to review and agree upon current plans, identify pain points and get ready for commissioning.
Agenda:
- Introduction
- What is metadetection? (Matt Becker, for DESC)
- Cell-based coadds
- Open discussion
Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GGOItKnlw1MtfG1IL7wLI2RzSKuI5nIk...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) and SLAC.
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