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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space & Time (LSST) will be a 10-year optical and near infrared survey that will image the entire visible sky every three nights. The science enabled by Rubin’s LSST will be very broad, ranging from studies of small moving bodies in the solar system to the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole. In May this year the 3.2-Gigapixel Camera arrived at Rubin Observatory in Chile. In early 2025 it will be mounted on the telescope and on-sky science validation will begin. The start of full operations and execution of the LSST is expected to follow in late 2025. Rubin/LSST will collect about 20 terabytes of multi-color imaging data every night, culminating in a 500 petabyte set of images and data products after 10 years. In this talk I will provide an update on the current status of Rubin/LSST construction and discuss how we are preparing the scientific community to analyse and do science with the LSST dataset. |
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