2025-08-04 –, Kuiper Space Sciences Lecture Hall (308)
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will catalog over 100,000 NEOs along with around 5 million Main Belt asteroids, almost 300,000 Jupiter Trojans, and over 40,000 KBOs. The LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) has been preparing tools and methods to analyze these data, organize and conduct follow-up and carry out the wealth of science that will be possible with Rubin Observatory's LSST.
I will provide an update on some of the projects underway within the SSSC such as the Sorcha survey simulator, forced photometry for fainter objects, activity and tail detection, the RAFT (Research Announcements for the Solar System) system for rapid communication of important results and the Follow-up Of Moving Objects (FOMO) Target and Observation Manager system for coordinating characterization follow-up observations.
