The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
summary
The project delivers an 8.4‑meter telescope with the world’s largest astronomy imager, a 3200‑megapixel camera with a field of view the size of 40 full moons, operating on an automated cadence that returns to each patch roughly every three nights. It produces raw streams of roughly 20 terabytes per night, full processing pipelines and public access, aiming to catalog ~20 billion galaxies and millions of stars over a ten‑year survey, with instrument‑signature removal and systematics control designed for precision weak‑lensing cosmology.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Start
- 1:17Mission and Statement
- 5:05Objectives of the Lsst
- 6:45Why We Chose To Build an Optical Telescope
- 7:20The Telescope and Site
- 8:13Telescope Mount Assembly
- 8:29The Elasticity Camera
- 12:57Digital Detectors
- 14:40Hyper Supreme Camera
- 14:52The Dark Energy Survey
- 16:08Data Management System
- 16:58The Commissioning Camera
- 19:57Education and Political Outreach
- 21:37Near Earth Objects
- 27:22The Cosmic Web
- 28:11Gravitational Lensing
- 29:12The Einstein Ring
- 33:00The Cosmic Microwave Background
- 36:07Current Status of the Ruin Observatory
- 36:24The Construction of the Roman Observatory
- 38:44Questions
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