Alerts in the Milky Way: Microlensing, Variable Stars, and Crowded Field Science

Submitted by kkruszynska on Sun, 05/24/2026 - 14:38

This session will be partially talks, primarily about analysis of Rubin alerts and filters developed for brokers and related simulations and algorithms for the discovery and characterization of microlensing, variable stars, and other objects in crowded fields. The other part will be a hackathon to explore and improve the existing filters to discover these objects, explore systematics in crowded fields, and access related simulations.

Contributed talks (abstracts):

3:30 - 3:45 - Ian Sullivan - LSST alerts in the Galactic plane3:45 - 3:55 - Natasha Abrams - Discovering and Interpreting Microlensing events with Rubin via ANTARES3:55 - 4:10 - Abhi Saha - Detection and Photometry of Stars in Rubin observation in Overcrowded Regions
4:10 - 4:20 - Sage Hironaka Remulla - Simulating Microlensing Events for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory4:20 - 4:30 - Katarzyna Kruszynska - Ralph - a gravitational microlensing event modelling pipeline4:30 - 5:00 - Rubin alert brokers filters hackathon

 

Lead or Chair for this Session: 
Natasha Abrams, Katarzyna Kruszyńska
Category: 
Science
Location: 
Trinity
Timeblock: 
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Day: 
Thursday

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