LSST/Rubin - DESC

The Rubin Observatory Summit Facility is located on the Cerro Pachón ridge in north-central Chile. Rubin Observatory consists of an integrated system that combines an 8.4-meter primary mirror, the world’s largest digital camera, a complex data processing system, and an online education platform. 

For the first ten years of operation, Vera C. Rubin Observatory will perform the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The Rubin Observatory LSST is designed to address four science areas:

• Probing dark energy and dark matter.

• Taking an inventory of the solar system.

• Exploring the transient optical sky.

• Mapping the Milky Way.

Work toward meeting the LSST science goals is being carried out by the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Collaborations. LSST DESC is the international science collaboration that will make high accuracy measurements of fundamental cosmological parameters using data from the LSST.

How to join:

• •  https://lsstdesc.org/pages/apply.html

Official links:

• • https://www.lsst.org/

  • https://lsstdesc.org/