Peregrine McGehee
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
About
Our collaboration is organized into seven Working Groups, each of which reflects a core scientific area being worked on by collaboration members. All collaboration members belong to at least one Working Group, and in early 2013, each Working Group was charged with creating a brief roadmap that highlights technical and scientific challenges that must be worked through to conduct our science with LSST. These roadmaps have been distilled into a list of active priorities, and the ongoing work tab gives a few examples of action items that collaboration members are actively pursuing.
SMWLV places no restrictions on members’ institutional status, career stage, or LSST data rights access status. SMWLV welcomes all individuals who can make a contribution to furthering SMWLV science.
SMWLV Co-Chairs
Kristen Dage
Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bentley, Western Australia
In-Kind Contributions Manager
Vandana Kaushik
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
Past Co-Chairs
Will Clarkson
University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
John Gizis
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
SMWLV Science Working Groups
The Solar Neighborhood
co-chairs: John Gizis (University of Delaware)
Star Clusters
co chairs: Ana Chies Santos (UFRGS), Kristen Dage (Curtin University), Ana Ennis (Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics & the Perimeter Institute)
Variable Stars
co chairs: Igor Andreoni (University of Maryland) Sara Bonito (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo)
Galactic Bulge
co chairs: Will Clarkson (University of Michigan), Victor Debattista (University of Central Lancashire)
Galactic Structure and ISM
co chairs: Peregrine McGehee (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Magellanic Clouds
co-chairs: Knut Olsen (NOIRLab), Jen Sobeck (CFHT)
Near Field Cosmology
Massimo Dall’Ora (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)
Communications
The Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume science collaboration utilizes several methods for communication amongst its members.
Slack
On the lsstc.slack.com server the following channels are of interest:- #milkyway - general collaboration messages
- #mc - Magellanic Clouds science working group
- #smwlv-galstruct-ism - Galactic Structure and Interstellar Medium science working group
- #smwlv-near-field-cosmology - Near Fields Cosmology science working group
- #smwlv-starclusters - Star Clusters science working group
- #crowded-stellar-field-tf - Crowded Field task force
- #desc-dark-matter - Dark Matter task force (from DESC)
- #galaxies-lsb - Low Surface Brightness task force (from Galaxies SC)
- #lsb-coordination-group - Low Surface Brightness coordination group
Website
Project based site: https://milkyway.science.lsst.orgThis website: https://rubin-smwlv.github.io/
Google Drive
SMWLV_public
Community
This Community Forum is the main portal for community engagement and crowd-sourced support for science with the Rubin Observatory data products and services. Everyone is welcome to browse, ask questions, share knowledge, and discuss topics related to Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Science/Milky Way (Open)
Tags (7 Jan 2023): crowded-fields, milkyway, astrometry, smwlv, brown-dwarfs, commissioning
Science Collaborations/Milky Way SC
Tags (7 Jan 2023): crowded-fields, milkyway, photometry, plane, smwlv, stars
GitHub
The repository used for SMWLV material is https://github.com/Rubin-SMWLV. This contains two main areas:- Rubin-SMWLV.github.io - source for this website
- Rubin-SMWLV-roadmap - SMWLV science roadmap document