Acknowledgements

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“This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreements AST-1258333 and AST-2241526 and Cooperative Support Agreements AST-1202910 and 2211468 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.”

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“This research uses services or data provided by the Rubin Science Platform at NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.”

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