Last update : 29th March 2nd August 2023
There are two documents relevant to data previews and releases :
Rubin Observatory Plans for an Early Science Program (Leanne Guy et al. RTN-11), latest version is dated 10th Feb 21st June 2023.
“Release Scenarios for Rubin - LSST Commissioning and Survey Data” (Phil Marshall et al. RDO-11) latest version is dated 10th February 2023.
On 23rd November 2022, the project released an important update on the Construction Plan. On-sky data with ComCam will NOT be taken, and the project is planning on installing LSSTCam on the telescope earlier than in the assembly sequence. The projected start of operations of October 2024 has not changed. It is anticipated that LSSTCam will now be ready to take on-sky data at the time when ComCam was due to do so (originally end of 2023, although that needs confirmedbut likely not to be 2024). The DP1 and DP2 plans have changed.This is generally good news as on-sky commissioning with ComCam will be replaced with on-sky commissioning with LSSTCam.
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Alert generation : the Guy et al. RTN describes how alert generation will be prioritised as templates become available
Table 8 from Guy et al. summarises the timeline (the solid lines are the beginning of US Financial years, beginning September. The dotted lines are calendar years)
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Data release dates and observation coverage
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