Image Quality and Optical Performance
Submitted by gmegias on Sun, 05/24/2026 - 13:21
This session will cover a range of topics on how the telescope is performing and the progress made so far including: overall IQ performance, main contributors to IQ, wavefront retrieval, active optics control, hexapods, thermal control, and dome seeing. The aim will be to provide the community a detailed picture on how the IQ affects the data, where things stand, and all that has been accomplished over the last year.
At the end of the session we will have a 20min-long Q&A session so you can ask your questions on system performance. Come prepared!
Contributed talks (abstracts):
- Keith Bechtol - Image Quality Status Summary
- Sandrine Thomas - Active Optics Status Summary
- Brian Stalder - Thermal control status update
- Craig Lage - Pointing Model Update
- Jackie Zhang - Guider Updates
- Tom J. Wilson (V) - Determining the Accuracy and Precision of Astrometric Positions and Covariances from the LSST Science Pipelines and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Using LSST's Data Previews
- Anja Weyant - Measuring Precipitable Water Vapor through Dual-Band GPS at Rubin Observatory
- Open Q&A session on Image Quality and Optical Performance
Lead or Chair for this Session:
Guillem Megias, Elana Urbach
Category:
Commissioning
Science
System Performance
Telescope & Site
Location:
Kavli
Timeblock:
10:30am - 12:00pm
Day:
Wednesday
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