Introduction
Pool travel - meetings and travel
Report on Joint Technical Meeting (tbc)
Report on Cosmic Streams Conference December 2023 (Chris Frohmaier TBC)
Inspiring a new era in space missions – latest Rubin science release
Rubin’s early warning system will have an impact on the planning and preparation of future space missions.
Published on 7 January 2024, a new science release from Rubin outlines how a discovery could trigger a space mission to a fast moving target.
Space missions that launch before a primary target has been identified are already in development: the JAXA/ESA Comet Interceptor mission is due to launch in 2029. A Rubin discovery could see the multi-element spacecraft directed to a long-period solar system comet or interstellar object passing by the sun for the first time.
Rubin could also identify flyby opportunities for missions that are already in progress, including NASA’s Lucy, whose shape and orbit are represented in the image, left.
Forthcoming meetings of interest
Since the previous newsletter, a number of further meetings have been announced, plus we have more details for some others.
Dates | Meeting Title / Event | Meeting Website/ Contact | Meeting venue/ location |
|---|---|---|---|
22/Jul/24—26/Jul/24 | Rubin Community Workshop | Further details about the meeting will be available once the meeting website is set up and registration opens. In the meantime, if you have questions about the meeting please send an email to pmo.rubin@noirlab.edu. | SLAC, California (hybrid) |
08/Jul/24—12/Jul/24 | DESC Collaboration Meeting | ETZ Zurich, Switzerland | |
20/May/24—23/May/24 | Rare Gems in Big Data. The discovery potential of large astrophysical surveys: science opportunities, tools, and techniques | https://mailchi.mp/d8d4daa3ed0a/first-announcement-rare-gems-in-big-data?e=5176cbbd93 | Tucson, AZ, USA |
15/Apr/24—19/Apr/24 | KAVLI-IAU (IAUS 387) Symposium, “(Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth and its Impact,” | Durham University, UK | |
18/Mar/24—20/Mar/24 | Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program | Berkeley, California (or virtual) | |
12/Mar/24—15/Mar/24 | Preparing for the Statistical Age of Strong Gravitational Lens Science with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) | Oxford, UK | |
26/Feb/24—01/Mar/24 | DESC Collaboration Meeting | Virtual |
Members of the Consortium (not in receipt of travel funding through one of the Science Centre grants) may apply for travel support for meetings of this kind via the LSST:UK Pool Travel Fund. Details are available at Forthcoming LSST-related Meetings
Note that the current list of forthcoming meeting is always available on the Relevant Meetings page. You may also wish to check information held on the LSST organisation website LSST-organised events and the LSST Corporation website.
News in brief
LSST:UK in the media / Aprajita in the Guardian
Announcements
The Challenging the Standard Cosmological Model workshop takes place at the Royal Society in London on 15 and 16 April 2024. Both in person and online attendance are available but advance registration (now open) is essential.
(Requested by Subir Sarkar)
If you have significant announcements that are directly relevant to LSST:UK and would like to share the announcement in a future newsletter, please contact Eleanor O'Kane (email eokane@roe.ac.uk)