Plenary: Rubin Project Keynote

Submitted by kbechtol on Sun, 04/28/2024 - 14:46

A Celebration of Rubin Commissioning

This year during the Project Plenary we celebrate the Commissioning team, the ComCam campaign, the installation of LSSTCam, and the many contributions from Rubin staff and in-kind commissioning team members as the Construction era draws to a close and the summit transitions to regular nightly Operations.

Speakers:

Speakers TBC.

Lead or Chair for this Session:

Keith Bechtol

Category:

Plenary

Location:

Pima/Sabino

Timeblock:

9:00am - 10:00am

Day:

Friday

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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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