Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST
Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST
Abstract We report studies on the mitigation of optical effects of bright low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites on Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). These include options for pointing the telescope to avoid satellites, laboratory investigations of bright trails on the Rubin Observatory LSST camera …