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 Co-Chairs

SMWLV Science Working Groups

The Solar Neighborhood

co-chairs: John Gizis (University of Delaware)

Star Clusters

co chairs: Kristen Dage (Wayne State University), Leo Girardi (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

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.

E-mail

lsst-milkyway-etc@lists.lsst.org

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.org
This 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