Schedule#
Most weeks we will have a guest speaker from the UW Rubin team provide an overview of the week’s topic on Tuesday. Thursday’s classes will be more hands-on, with a mixture of Q&A, interactive work in the Rubin Science Platform, and co-working on homework and other projects.
Week 1: Introduction to LSST and the RSP#
Jan. 3: Course Introduction. slides
Jan. 5: Guest speaker: Melissa Graham
Reading: Ivezic et al. 2019, “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products”
Week 2: Status of the Rubin Construction Project#
Jan. 10: Guest Speaker: Victor Krabbendam
Jan. 12: No class meeting (AAS)
Reading: DP0.2 Documentation
Week 3: LSST Data Processing Algorithms and Data Products#
Jan. 17: Guest Speaker: Ian Sullivan slides
Jan 19: Guest speaker: Melissa Graham
Reading: Data Products Definition Document
Week 4: Survey Scheduling in Commissioning and Operations#
Jan. 24 & 26: Guest speaker: Peter Yoachim slides 1 slides 2
Readings: Bianco et al. 2022, PSTN-051, PSTN-055
Week 5: Static Sky Science: Extragalactic, Photo-z, & Cosmology#
Jan. 31: Guest Speaker: Andy Connolly slides
Feb. 2: Final Project overview. Proposal writing and reviewing. slides
Reading: Science Book Chapters 9, 13, 14, & 15. Newman & Gruen 2022
Week 6: Solar System Science#
Feb. 7 & 9 : Guest speaker: Mario Juric
Reading: Science Book Chapter 5, Schwamb et al. 2018
Week 7: Time Domain Science: Transients#
Feb. 14: Guest speaker: Melissa Graham slides
Feb. 16: Photometric Classification slides
Reading: Science Book Chapters 8 & 11
Week 8: Time Domain Science: Variables#
Feb. 21: Guest Speaker: Neven Caplar slides
Feb. 23: Stellar Distances slides, Astrostatistics notebook.
Reading: Science Book Chapters 8 & 10
Week 9: Static Sky Science: Galactic Structure#
Feb. 28: Guest Speaker: Colin Slater. slides Final project outline due.
Mar. 2: Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Rubin slides
Reading: Science Book Chapters 6 & 7
Week 10: Commissioning Plans & Final Projects#
Mar. 7: Commissioning Overview. slides Final projects due.
Mar. 9: Peer review of final projects