How to cite Rubin Observatory

Name use guide

Guidelines for use of names related to Rubin Observatory's telescope, site, camera, and survey.

Citable publications

Quick links to the DOI or BiBTeX for commonly-cited references.

System and survey design

The Rubin Observatory system, including the observatory, telescope, and camera, and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST):

• "LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products", Ivezić et al. (2019)

Survey cadence optimization efforts:

• "Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design", Bianco et al. (2022)

Recent data releases

Data Preview 0.3 acknowledgement:

• The DP0.3 data set was generated by members of the Rubin Solar System Pipelines and Commissioning teams, with help from the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, in particular: Pedro Bernardinelli, Jake Kurlander, Joachim Moeyens, Samuel Cornwall, Ari Heinze, Steph Merritt, Lynne Jones, Siegfried Eggl, Meg Schwamb, Grigori Fedorets, and Mario Juric.

Data Preview 0.2 references:

• "CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST", Korytov et al. (2019)
• "The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey", LSST DESC (2021)
• "DESC DC2 Data Release Note", LSST DESC (2021)

Future data releases

The timeline for early science and the contents of Data Previews 1 and 2:

• "Rubin Observatory Plans for an Early Science Program", Guy et al. (2024)

The future LSST data products, tools, and services:

• "The Rubin Data Products, Abridged", Graham et al. (2022)
• "Data Products Definitions Document", Jurić et al. (2023)

Software

The Rubin Science Platform (RSP; data.lsst.cloud):

• "Rubin Science Platform on Google: the story so far", O'Mullane et al. (2024)
• "LSST Science Platform Vision Document", Jurić et al. (2019)
• "Science Platform Design", Dubois-Felsmann et al. (2019)

The LSST Science Pipelines:

• Follow these instructions for citing the LSST Science Pipelines.

Bibtex for technical documentation

The GitHub repository lsst-texmf contains bibtex-style references for technical documents.

Rubin Observatory Technical Publications

Full curated list of Rubin Observatory Technical Publications.

Acknowledgments

For acknowledgments to the construction project (until operations begin in 2024):

• This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreement AST-1258333 and Cooperative Support Agreement AST-1202910 managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and the Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory managed by Stanford University. Additional Rubin Observatory funding comes from private donations, grants to universities, and in-kind support from LSST-DA Institutional Members.

For acknowledgments related to the pre-operations of Rubin Observatory (current):

• This material or work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreement AST-1258333 and Cooperative Support Agreement AST1836783 managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and the Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory managed by Stanford University.

Use of images and video

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