Dear all,
Please see the new version (v2.1) of technote RTN-011, “Rubin Observatory Plans for an Early Science Program,” now available at https://rtn-011.lsst.io and citeable at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5683848.
These updates in this new version are of general interest, but they are also designed to support those of you who are writing research grant proposals this year (e.g. to the NSF AAG grants call, or the various institutional fellowships on offer this Fall).
You’ll see some new data release milestone data ranges relative to those we showed at the PCW: these capture our current understanding of the Rubin schedule uncertainties in full.
You’ll also see the very high level plan for the commissioning observations (that will feed into the DP1 and DP2 data previews) that we showed at the PCW, so that you can not only plan your early science research with DP1, DP2, DR1, and the early science alert stream, but also cite the Rubin plan correctly.
We’ve set up Leanne’s Early Science talk at LSST@Europe4 to serve as a “PI Briefing” that will also hopefully help the proposal-writers among you. Click here to download a preview of Leanne’s slides (with the caveat that she may yet tweak them before taking the stage, of course).
You’ll see that they contain guidance on how to cite RTN-011 and the “Rubin data Products, Abridged” slide deck, and also some suggestions for how to make your proposals as compelling as possible.
Any questions can be posted as replies in this topic thread (below), or as new topics in the “Science - Early Science” category of the Forum.
You can also get some in-person support for your early science research grant proposal: all are welcome to join the drop-in early science Q&A session on Wed Nov 2 2022 at 08:00am US Pacific Daylight Time. Click here for connection info.
Here at Rubin we are rooting for you all, as you get ready for LSST Early Science!
Best wishes,
Phil
Updated 2022-10-25: to include RTN-011’s v2.1 zenodo DOI URL