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RTN-095: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

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  1. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
  5. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  6. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  7. Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, LAPP
  8. Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, LPNHE
  9. Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  10. Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA, APC
  11. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
  12. Brookhaven National Laboratory
  13. Yerkes Observatory
  14. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  15. Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  16. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  17. Amazon Web Services
  18. Vera C. Rubin Observatory, NSF NOIRLab
  19. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
  20. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington
  21. Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington
  22. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware; Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware; Data Science Institute, University of Delaware
  23. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  24. Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, APC
  25. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  26. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, LPSC
  27. Department of Physics "E. Pancini", University Federico II of Napoli
  28. Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF NOIRLab
  29. Dept. of Physics, University of Washington
  30. INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
  31. LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing; Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington; Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University
  32. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
  33. NSF NOIRLab
  34. Université Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPCA
  35. Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab
  36. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  37. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  38. Caltech/IPAC, California Institute of Technology
  39. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
  40. Department of Physics, Brown University
  41. Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  42. D4D CONSULTING LTD.
  43. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM
  44. Tekniker
  45. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
  46. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  47. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki; Asteroid Engineering Laboratory, Luleøa University of Technology
  48. CNRS/IN2P3, CC-IN2P3
  49. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office; Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington
  50. Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
  51. Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Davis
  52. Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley
  53. Lancaster University
  54. Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
  55. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  56. Department of Physics, Duke University; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  57. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Davis
  58. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University
  59. Physik-Institut, University of Zurich
  60. Department of Physics, Columbia University; Brookhaven National Laboratory
  61. EPCC, University of Edinburgh
  62. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
  63. soZen Inc.
  64. Astrophysics Research Cluster, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield
  65. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council
  66. Department of Physics, Duke University
  67. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
  68. Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  69. Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University
  70. Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
  71. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington; Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington
  72. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I
  73. INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio Bologna
  74. Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA), University of Bologna; INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio Bologna
  75. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
  76. J.Sick Codes Inc.; Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office
  77. Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK Research and Innovation
  78. ASTRON; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  79. INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio Bologna; Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA), University of Bologna
  80. Department of Physics, Harvard University
  81. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  82. Department of Physics, University of Oxford
  83. LSST Discovery Alliance
  84. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
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We present Rubin Data Preview 1 (DP1), the first release of data from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, consisting of raw and calibrated single-epoch images, coadds, difference images, detection catalogs, and other derived data products. DP1 is based on 1792 science-grade optical/near-infrared exposures acquired over 48 distinct nights by the Rubin Commissioning Camera, LSSTComCam, on the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Summit Facility on Cerro Pachón, Chile during the first on-sky commissioning campaign in late 2024. DP1 covers a total of ~15 sq. deg. over seven roughly equally-sized non-contiguous fields, each independently observed in six broad photometric bands, ugrizy, spanning a range of stellar densities and latitudes and overlapping with external reference datasets. The median image quality across all bands, measured by the FWHM of the point-spread function, is approximately 1.13 arcseconds, with the sharpest images reaching about 0.65 arcseconds. DP1 contains approximately 2.3 million distinct astrophysical objects, of which 1.6 million are extended in at least one band, and 431 solar system objects, of which 93 are new discoveries. DP1 is approximately 3.5 TB in size and available to Rubin data rights holders via the Rubin Science Platform, a cloud-based environment for the analysis of petascale astronomical data. While small compared to future LSST releases, its high quality and diversity of data support a broad range of early science investigations across all four LSST themes, providing a valuable opportunity to engage with Rubin data ahead of the start of full operations in late 2025.

Research Organization:
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory; U.S. National Science Foundation National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
2570536
Report Number(s):
Technical Note RTN-095
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: raw dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: visit_image dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: difference_image dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: deep_coadd dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: template_coadd dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: survey property dataset type dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: DiaSource searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: DiaObject searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: ForcedSourceOnDiaObject searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: Source searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: Object searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: ForcedSource searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: CcdVisit searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: SSSource searchable catalog dataset January 2025
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Data Preview 1: SSObject searchable catalog dataset January 2025
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