rubinann17006 — Announcement
Rubin Digest 03 March 2017
3 March 2017: Project News The annual LSST Joint Technical Meeting (JTM) will take place in Glendale, CA, next week, with over 170 participants from the distributed technical teams. This year, Verification, Commissioning, and Operations Planning are priorities, as are cross-cutting work sessions between subsystems. In addition, the LSST Science Advisory Committee will meet prior to the meeting start, to discuss topics of interest to the science community including commissioning plans and observing strategy. Version 1.0 of the Observatory Control System (OCS) Scheduler has been released by the LSST Telescope & Site team to the Systems Engineering Simulations team. This important milestone marks the first version of the Scheduler that has all the functionality necessary to implement the five science proposals in the current survey baseline: Wide Fast Deep, North Ecliptic Spur, South Celestial Pole, Galactic Plane, and Deep Drilling. The software will now be validated through a series of simulated surveys and …