Italian Participation to Rubin LSST
The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics and Rubin-LSST
INAF is an Italian institute that directly organises and funds the whole Italian research in all astronomical fields. It is organised in 16 different institutes and observatories scattered throughout the entire country, and includes more than 700 staff researchers and hundreds of associated university professors.
At the national level, it operates in strong cooperation with Italian Universities, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). It has a wide range of international collaborations with institutes and space agencies across the entire world.
INAF researchers are active in all field of LSST-related fields, including in particular objects of the solar system, stellar population, variable stars, transients and high energy sources, galaxy and AGN evolution, cosmology, machine learning and data science.
Catalyst Rubin LSST post-doc fellowship proposals
INAF staff and post-doc have access to a wide range of world-class observing facilities, including national facilities (like VST, TNG, LBT in the optical and SRT in the radio), international facilities (like all ESO telescopes, ALMA, as well as SKA and CTA as they are available), and large computing facilities at CINECA. Post-doc at INAF have also the opportunity of joining GAIA, Euclid and other ESA scientific missions in which INAF is heavily involved.
Science Themes
More than one hundred of INAF scientists are interested in participating to the Rubin LSST project.
In anticipation of this wide collaboration, that will be regulated with an agreement in exchange of “in-kind” contribution, ongoing activities and plans for future participation are being organized across some main science themes.
