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Europhysics News
Volume 55, Number 5, 2024
Probing the universe
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Page(s) | 29 - 33 | |
Section | Features | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2024511 | |
Published online | 19 November 2024 |
Vera rubin observatory and LSST
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Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38000 Grenoble, France
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory [1] is a large, 8-meter class, wide field of view optical telescope instrumented with a gigantic, 3 billion pixel, astronomical camera. It is designed to carry out a photometric survey of the southern sky and will map more than half of the sky every 4 nights.
© European Physical Society, EDP Sciences, 2024
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