Rubin Observatory

What is Rubin Observatory?

Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new astronomical facility on top of Cerro Pachón ridge in Chile. Rubin Observatory will conduct a ten-year survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky (referred to as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST) with the goal of answering some of scientists' biggest questions about the Universe.

Every night for a decade, Rubin Observatory will take images of the sky using a 3200 megapixel camera and six different optical filters. Each image covers an area as big as 40 full moons, and the giant 8.4-meter telescope can move between different positions in less than five seconds. In this way, the telescope will image the entire visible sky every 3-4 nights. This makes Rubin Observatory particularly good at detecting objects that have changed in brightness, like supernovae, or in position, like asteroids. Additionally, Rubin Observatory’s light-collecting power and sensitive camera will help us discover about 20 billion galaxies and a similar number of stars.

KASI has been involved with Rubin Observatory and LSST project since 2011, and had the 'Memorandum of Agreement' with LSST Corporation in 2016.

KASI has proposed to provide In-kind Contribution Proposal in 2020 in exchange of Korean Rubin Data Access Rights based on the Data Right Agreements with SLAC/DOE and AURA/NSF. 

For more information on Rubin Observatory, please refer to the official Rubin Observatory webpage.