Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume

Submitted by jgizis on Sun, 05/24/2026 - 12:55

This session will cover early science results on stars and the Milky Way, and will include discussions on the Rubin performance for static stellar science cases. Topics might include astrometry, star-galaxy separation, crowded field pipelines, prompt image source catalogs, and comparisons to Gaia. Reach out to the session chair to inquire about space to speak in this session.

Contributed talks (abstracts):

Easton Honaker - Identifying Ultracool Dwarfs in DP1
Cicero Lu - Exocomet Science with Rubin and Simulated Yields: Prospects of High Confidence Detections
Zeljko Ivezic - New and improved: Bayesian star-galaxy separation for LSST catalogs

Lead or Chair for this Session:

John Gizis

Category:

Science

Location:

Trinity

Timeblock:

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Day:

Tuesday

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Accounts do not carry over from previous years.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science 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 NOIRLab and SLAC.

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