LSST:UK at NAM 2024

We had a pair of two-hour sessions on the first day of NAM 2024. In addition to background information, primarily aimed at the wider NAM audience, talks covered several of the UK’s in-kind contributions to Rubin operations and a variety of preparatory science activities, with the day ending with a project update from Bob Blum, Rubin Director of Operations. Copies of the slides presented are listed below, while recordings of the sessions may be accessed by those who registered for NAM from this webpage.

Session 1:

Introduction and summary of UK involvement in the Rubin LSST (Bob Mann)
LSST survey strategy and early science plans (Stephen Smartt)
Preparations for Rubin Data Release productions (James Mullaney)
Photometric galaxy clustering with HSC DR3: an LSST precursor study (Tom Cornish)
Enabling early Rubin science with robust cross-matches in the crowded LSST sky (Tom Wilson)

Session 2:

Detecting the Galactic interstellar object population with LSST (Matthew Hopkins)
Eliciting astrophysical distributions from imperfect survey data (Dustin Mason)
Probing galaxy clusters with the XMM Cluster Survey and implications for LSST (Paul Giles)
Higher order statistics in Rubin data (Lea Harscouet)
Rubin Observatory update (Bob Blum)