Synoptic survey telescope

Named the highest priority for ground-based astronomy in the 2010 Decadal Survey, the LSST project formally began construction in July 2014. With a light-gathering power among the largest in the world, it can detect faint objects with short exposures. The LSST project will provide analysis tools to enable both students and the public to participate in the process of scientific discovery. **Versión en Español mas abajo**Dear Colleagues,May 5, 2020 - The Rubin Observatory Commissioning Camera (ComCam) shipped from Tu...Financial support for LSST comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. We invite you to learn more about LSST science.The LSST will be unique: no existing telescope or proposed camera could be retrofitted or re-designed to cover ten square degrees of sky with a collecting area of forty square meters. The DOE-funded effort to build the LSST camera is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). Her work was confirmed using numerous observational techniques and it has had a major impact on cosmology.The initiative to name the observatory in honor of Rubin began in June 2019 when House Science Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón proposed the idea. It is fitting that Rubin’s name is attached to an observatory in Chile, where women’s participation in astronomy has been comparatively strong. Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will make the widest and deepest image of the universe DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the Each patch of sky it images will be visited 1000 times during the survey. The design of the LSST survey is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. 大型シノプティック・サーベイ望遠鏡 (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: LSST) は、チリ・パチョン山に建設が予定されている、口径8.4mの可視光赤外線望遠鏡である。 アメリカの22の大学・研究所・企業がLSST Corporationを結成して建設・運営に当たる。 The science operations to deliver the LSST survey will be jointly funded by NSF and DOE.The telescope at the Rubin Observatory is now named the Simonyi Survey Telescope in recognition of a significant private donation made early in the construction phase that was used to design, develop, and fabricate the telescope’s primary mirror.For more details, see the The federal LSST project is jointly funded by the National, Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, with early construction funding received through private donations through the LSST Corporation.

It consists of an integrated system featuring a wide-field ground-based telescope with an 8.4-meter mirror. During 10 years of operation starting in 2022, the Rubin Observatory together with the 3,200 megapixel DOE LSST Camera and the data facility will carry out an unprecedented optical survey of the visible sky named the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. NSF and DOE will continue to support the Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. This map will serve a myriad of purposes, from locating that mysterious substance called dark matter and characterizing the properties of the even more mysterious dark energy, to tracking transient objects, to studying our own Milky Way Galaxy in depth.

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