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2020 has been a pivotal year for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), to be carried out by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A virtual half-day workshop was held on Monday 14 Dec 2020 at which Australian Science Lead for the LSST, Prof. Sarah Brough updated the community on the in-kind proposal process underway to secure data access rights for at least 35 Australian PIs (and up to 4 Junior Researchers each). Following that was a series of short presentations about work that Australian researchers and their groups are currently involved in that relate to the LSST, the various LSST Science Collaborations, or that in some way will help add value to our LSST engagement. A transcript of the Q&A via Zoom Chat following some of the talks is also available.
Workshop program
| Time (AEDT) | Time (AWST) | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | 9:00 | Stuart Ryder (AAL) – Welcome & housekeeping | ||
| 12:05 | 9:05 | Sarah Brough (UNSW) | Australia & LSST Update | https://www.dropbox.com/s/8w27t5kvwdi9wlj/brough_lsst_update_2012.pdf?dl=0 |
| 12:15 | 9:15 | Anais Möller (Fink) | Introduction to the LSST broker, Fink | https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8g2uwsw5vhga9l/moller_fink_lsstaustralia.pdf?dl=0 |
| 12:20 | 9:20 | Yuan-Sen Ting (Princeton/ANU) | Weak lensing & cosmology with LSST | https://www.dropbox.com/s/bapi3illttestzj/ting-talk.pdf?dl=0 |
| 12:35 | 9:35 | Rachel Webster (U. Melbourne) | Microlensing Quasars | https://www.dropbox.com/s/xe3h4ao1yrcudzn/webster_lsst-wkshp-dec2020.pdf?dl=0 |
| 12:50 | 9:50 | Tara Murphy (U. Sydney) | Radio transients in the LSST era | https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhrgufckki9ic4y/murphy_lsst.pdf?dl=0 |
| 13:05 | 10:05 | Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne) | Strong lensing with LSST | https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr62cn7k1kwmj6e/glazebrook-lsst-lensing-dec2020.pdf?dl=0 |
| 13:20 | 10:20 | Ilya Mandel (Monash) | LSST transient observations as probes of binary evolution | https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvcz2zqu33orsug/mandel-lsst20201214.pdf?dl=0 |
| 13:35 | 10:35 | Timothy Holt (USQ) | Using Astrocladistics to analyse LSST Solar system objects | https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqwzn9is88biple/holt-2020-lsst-astrocladistics.pdf?dl=0 |
| 14:00 | 11:00 | Amanda Karakas (Monash) | Theoretical rates of white-dwarf transients | https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zeocdo3qkrjhkb/karakaslsst-dec2020.pdf?dl=0 |
| 13:50 | 10:50 | Break | ||
| 14:15 | 11:15 | Daniel Zucker (Macquarie) | Stellar Streams in the Halo of the Milky Way | https://www.dropbox.com/s/3f89o06xfct86it/bolejko-lsst.pdf?dl=0 |
| 14:30 | 11:30 | Krzysztof Bolejko (U. Tasmania) | Studying dark matter with cosmic voids | https://www.dropbox.com/s/klq4r88cd09kuie/zucker-stellar_streams_mw_halo.pdf?dl=0 |
| 14:45 | 11:45 | Cristina Martinez-Lombilla (UNSW) | Unveiling the diffuse light in galaxy groups with Hyper Suprime-Cam | https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjwsp4fq0wd6z0n/martinez-lombilla_lsst-australia-2020.pdf?dl=0 |
| 15:00 | 12:00 | Luca Casagrande (ANU) | Photometric stellar parameters and stellar populations with LSST filters | https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5ck0wybl7ftopb/casagrande_lsst.pdf?dl=0 |
| 15:15 | 12:15 | Sarah Brough (UNSW) | Workshop summary and plans for 2021 | |
| 15:20 | 12:20 | Workshop ends |
