Software and pipelines

The Rubin Science Platform (RSP)

Options for citing the Rubin Science Platform (RSP).

• “Rubin Science Platform on Google: the story so far”, O’Mullane et al. (2024)

• “LSST Science Platform Vision Document”, Jurić et al. (2019)

• “Science Platform Design”, Dubois-Felsmann et al. (2019)

The LSST Science Pipelines

Follow these instructions for citing the LSST Science Pipelines.

The Rubin scheduler

To cite the scheduler software, use the following publications.

• LSST Rubin Scheduler (GitHub repository lsst/rubin_scheduler v3.12.0), DOI

• “A Framework for Telescope Schedulers: With Applications to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope”, Naghib et al. (2019)

Tutorials

To cite the Rubin tutorials, use the following DOI.

• NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (2025); Rubin Observatory LSST Tutorials; doi.org/10.11578/rubin/dc.20250909.20.

Simulations

For citations to simulations packages and results, such as simulated images or catalogs, operations simulations for the LSST, and the expected depths, visit the Simulation software page.