The Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume science collaboration utilizes several methods for communication amongst its members.
SMWLV Co-Chairs
Please use the co-Chairs of the Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume Science Collaboration as points of contact for information and queries about the LSST and the science collaboration.
Will Clarkson (wiclarks at umich.edu)
University of Michigan
Peregrine McGehee (peregrine.mcgehee at gmail.com)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Kristen Dage (kcdage@wayne.edu)
Wayne State University
Communication
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