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Strategy for Identifying Vera C. #Rubin Observatory #Kilonova Candidates for Targeted #GravitationalWave Searches: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae244e -> How Many Kilonovae Will Rubin Observatory Help Us Spot? https://aasnova.org/2026/02/04/how-many-kilonovae-will-rubin-observatory-help-us-spot/

Assessing the Vera #Rubin Observatory's Ability to Discover Asteroid Impactors Before They Collide with Earth: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16255 -> Can Rubin Spot an Incoming Asteroid in Time? Testing LSST’s Early-Warning Power: https://www.newplanetarium.com/journal/2026-01-29

The Vera C. #Rubin Observatory has released its first alerts documenting astronomical events spotted by the observatory: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2605/ - Rubin issued 800,000 alerts the night of 24 February which called scientists’ attention to new asteroids, exploding stars, and other changes in the night sky; this milestone marks the launch of a system expected to eventually produce up to seven million alerts per night.

On the night of February 5, 2026, the #Rubin team submitted a large batch of approximately 20,000 #asteroid candidate discoveries to the #MinorPlanetCenter, corresponding to roughly 246,000 individual observations: https://minorplanetcenter.net/media/newsletters/MPC_Newsletter_Feb2026.pdf - the "MPC successfully processed the entire submission. This unusually large batch provided a valuable end-to end stress test of our pipeline and allowed us to identify a few bottlenecks and areas where performance and automation can be improved."