Interests and Activities

SMWLV @ LSST@Europe6

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.

Rubin and Roman teams are committed to maximizing scientific impact through coordinated survey strategies.

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.

Dedicated discussion on crowded fields in microlensing session at RCW 2024

See the workshop agenda for more.

Dedicated session for Stellar Science and Crowded Fields at the RCW 2024

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)

Dedicated session for SMWLV at First LSST Latin American Meeting

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)

Workshop on Ultracool Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood with Rubin LSST: January 2024

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.

Extragalactic Globular Cluster Classification

The star clusters science working group is working on a photometric star cluster classification tool. See the Star Clusters SWG page for more.

SCOC 4th workshop

The SCOC met on January 19, 2024 to discuss plans from the strategy task forces. See more at this link.