LATISS – LSST Atmospheric Transmission Imager and Slitless Spectrograph

Citation: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, LSST Atmospheric Transmission Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (LATISS) (2020) https://doi.org/10.71929/rubin/2571930 [BibTeX]

LATISS, the LSST Atmospheric Transmission Imager and Slitless Spectrograph, is installed on the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope, a 1.2-meter telescope dedicated to atmospheric characterization at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory site. It uses a 4k x 4k CCD, made by ITL, of the same type as used on LSSTCam. It is designed to measure atmospheric transmission and calibrate LSST observations by taking spectra of standard stars. LATISS was installed in early 2020.

Citing LATISS

Use of the correct formal citation strings and keywords ensures that all uses of data from LATISS can be found using community tools.

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.71929/rubin/2571930 (refers to this document)

  • Use this DOI when referring to the instrument specifically; otherwise a dataset DOI may be more appropriate (see the documentation for the specific data release you are using) or a technical reference such as Ingraham et al. (2020) given below.

• IVOA ObsCore keywords: facility_name = Rubin:1.2m, instrument_name = LATISS

• AAS facility keyword: Rubin:1.2m or, for specificity, Rubin:1.2m (LATISS)

• Minor Planet Center observatory code: X05 (there is no observatory code specifically for the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope; use the Simonyi Survey Telescope code instead).

Technical Documentation

• LATISS Instrument Handbook, Mondrik, Ingraham, and Brownsbuger (2019; NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Telescope and Site Technical Note TSTN-006)

• Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder, Ingraham et al. (2020; SPIE, doi:10.1117/12.2561112)

This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreement AST-1258333 and Cooperative Support Agreement AST-1202910 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 LSSTC Institutional Members.