GR SIG Seminar, 29 May 2026

Physics of the Cosmos… Physics of the Cosmos Community GR SIG Seminar, 29… About CommunityProgram Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups Meetings Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources GR SIG Seminar Gamma Ray Science Interest Group GR SIG about GR SIG Seminar Location Virtual Dates 29 May 2026 12:00pm ET Community GR SIG Type Seminar Rubin’s LSST: Synergies with Gamma-Ray Astronomy Speaker Dr. željko Ivezić, the Director of the Rubin Observatory Abstract The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will provide transformative opportunities for gamma-ray astronomy through deep, wide, and high-cadence optical observations. LSST, the most comprehensive optical astronomical sky survey ever undertaken, will obtain panoramic images of the night sky every clear night for ten years, beginning this year. The resulting tens of petabytes of imaging data, essentially a digital color movie of the night sky, will include about 20 billion galaxies and a similar number of stars, and will be used for investigations ranging from cataloging potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids to fundamental physics, including the characterization of dark matter and dark energy. LSST data will enable the identification and characterization of counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, blazars, neutrino sources, and other high-energy transients, while providing crucial variability and host-galaxy information. LSST will also improve searches for dark matter through the discovery of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies and will help classify large populations of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources. Synergies with facilities such as Fermi, CTA, Swift, and IceCube will enhance multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of relativistic jets, cosmic particle acceleration, and transient phenomena, bringing us closer to massive multi-wavelength transient astrophysics, one of the central paradigms of 2030s astronomy. Seminar Connection Join the Seminar News Straight to Your Inbox Subscribe to your community email news list We will never share your email address. Privacy Policy " /> --> Sign Up The post GR SIG Seminar, 29 May 2026 appeared first on NASA Science.