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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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Rubin Science Assemblies

Thursday mornings at 9:00am Pacific.

Connection info: Rubin Science Assemblies Zoom link request form

Weekly virtual sessions on learning to use the Rubin data products, pipelines, and services, run by the Rubin Community Science team (CST). All are welcome; students are especially encouraged. New to Rubin? Drop in and let Rubin staff help you get started.

Format

Alternates between tutorials and drop-in office hours, with the occasional presentation.

  • Tutorial - A hands-on demonstration of data analysis in the Rubin Science Platform.
  • Drop-in office hour - Get help, ask questions, or co-work with Rubin staff and attendees.
  • Presentations - A talk, typically without a hands-on component.

Schedule and recordings for 2025

Thursday mornings at 9:00am Pacific.

Assemblies with tutorials or presentations are recorded (links below).

  • Jan 09, tutorial: How to join user-uploaded tables in RSP
  • Jan 16, drop-in office hour
  • Jan 23, presentation: Data Preview 0 Review: Thank You Delegates!
  • Jan 30, drop-in office hour
  • Feb 06, presentation: Looking forward to Data Preview 1
  • Feb 13, drop-in office hour
  • Feb 20, tutorial: How to use the Portal and Firefly's DS9-like functions
  • Feb 27, drop-in office hour
  • Mar 06, tutorial: How to use the ANTARES Alert Broker
  • Mar 13, cancelled for staff event
Special series of science preparation seminars. Each seminar will start with a brief overview of the LSST goals and planned data products that are relevant to the science topic, and include a hands-on demonstration of how to access and analyze simulated data products via the Rubin Science Platform. There will be time for questions.
  • Mar 20, tutorial: Dark Energy
  • Mar 27, tutorial: Strong Lensing
  • Apr 03, tutorial: Galaxies
  • Apr 10, tutorial: Time Domain
  • Apr 17, tutorial: Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Apr 24, tutorial: Solar System
  • May 01, tutorial: Stars & Milky Way

Regular assemblies will continue to alternate weeks of tutorials and drop-ins.

  • May 8, drop-in: Discussion and Q&A on Community Filters
  • May 15, presentation: Hyrax: A Package for Scalable ML & Unsupervised Discovery in the Rubin Era, Aritra Ghosh
  • May 22, drop-in office hour
  • May 29, presentation: Predictions for the Detectability of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies and Outer-Halo Star Clusters with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Kabelo Tsiane
  • Jun 05, drop-in office hour
  • Jun 12, presentation: Citizen Science with Rubin Observatory, Clare Higgs
  • Jun 26, presentation: Get your RSP account ready for DP1
  • Jul 10, tutorial: Choose your own DP1 adventure
  • Jul 17, drop-in office hour
  • Jul 24, tutorial: Image reprocessing - source detection and forced photometry

Regular assemblies will restart again mid-September 2025.

Past assemblies

Go to recordings of assemblies from 2022, 2023, and 2024.