See below for some highlights of SMWLV activity:
The first data taken by Rubin are already starting to yield exciting science results on nearby galaxies. DP1 imaging was used to characterize the stellar populations and globular clusters of an ultra-diffuse galaxy in Romanowsky et al. (2025a). Virgo First Look provided spectacular imaging of a long stellar stream around the spiral galaxy M61 (Romanowsky et al. 2025b). for more.
nProFit es una herramienta computacional para caracterizar poblaciones de cúmulos estelares (Cuevas Otahola et al. 2022,Cuevas Otahola in prep.) para más detalles. Actualmente nProFit se encuentra en el desarrollo de su versión 2.0, orientada para caracterizar poblaciones de cúmulos estelares en datos del LSST. Esta herramienta fue mostrada durante un tutorial y en una contribución oral durante la Reunión Latinoamericana de LSST, que se llevó a cabo en Diciembre de 2025. En este proyecto se encuentran involucrados muchos miembros de nuestra colaboración científica SMWLV.
Talks: Introduction to SMWLV, Giada Pastorelli; Early Galactic Science with LSST, Aarya Patil; Metal-poor very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Rubin LSST and Euclid, Nicola Lodieu; Modeling long-period variability in evolved stars for Rubin-LSST, Michele Trabucchi; Light curve’s recovery with Rubin-LSST: II. Unveiling the darkness of the galactic bulge with RR Lyrae, Marcella Di Criscienzo; Accelerating Stellar Photometric Distance Estimates with Neural Networks, Karlo Mrakovčić; PhotoD with the LSST, Lovro Palaversa See the conference program for more.
Joint Rubin/Roman teams have submitted white papers to Roman's call for community input detailing how both facilities can combine data and refine survey strategies to maximize their science return. Three white papers particularly focus on Milky Way bulge and plane surveys. See Street et al., Kruszyńska et al, Abrams et al for more.
See the workshop agenda for more.
Discussion includes: Beyond the centroid: the need for a more complete model of LSST astrometric uncertainties (Tom J. Wilson), Synthetic LSST magnitudes derived from Gaia XP spectra (Oleksandra Razim),Ultracool Dwarfs with Rubin and Roman (Aaron Meisner), Simulating Solar Neighborhood Brown Dwarfs: A Guide for Upcoming Surveys (Easton Honaker), Mining exoplanets and benchmark brown dwarfs from large sky surveys (ZJ Zhang)
Discussion includes: Globular cluster systems as probes of the build-up of galaxies and their environments in the LSST era by Ana Leonor Chies-Santos (Senior Faculty, UFRGS), Characterising stellar haloes of dwarf galaxies by Elissa Tau (PhD Student, La Serena), Kinematics of the NGC 4945 diffuse stellar halo with MUSE by Camila Beltran (PhD Student, La Serena), Neighbourhood Watch: A Survey of Baryonic Substructures in the Nearby Universe by Rohan Rahatgaonkar (PhD Student, PUC)
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time has unparalleled capabilities to study nearby ultracool dwarfs, very-low-mass stars, and brown dwarfs. This workshop is meant to revitalize the Solar Neighbor Working Group as we approach First Light for the Observatory.
The star clusters science working group is working on a photometric star cluster classification tool. See the Star Clusters SWG page for more.
The SCOC met on January 19, 2024 to discuss plans from the strategy task forces. See more at this link.