Paper

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

Bellm, Eric C, Kleinman, Scot J, Lange, Travis, Swinbank, John D, Sedaghat, Nima, Bolton, Adam, Russo, Stefano, Ceballo, Ross, Daues, Greg, Zhang, Tianqing, Mau, Sidney, Moeyens, Joachim, Ranabhat, Arianna, Ritz, Steven M, Madejski, Greg M, Sanmartim, David, Gill, Ranpal K, Schindler, Rafe H, Eiger, Orion, Laurent Le Guillou, Kurlander, Jacob A, Guan, Wen, Stalder, Brian, Tyson, J Anthony, MacBride, Sean Patrick, Glenaver Charles Emerson, Jarugula, Sreevani, David Jimenez Mejias, Tucker, Douglas L, Salnikov, Andrei, Clements, Andy W, Markiewicz, Thomas W, Choi, Yumi, Suberlak, Krzysztof, Waters, Christopher Z, Laporte, Didier, Nourbakhsh, Erfan, Deppe, Stephanie J H, Moolekamp, Fred E, Osier, Shawn, Venegas, Paulina, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Liang, Shuang, Laliotis, Katherine, Mainetti, Gabriele, Connolly, Andrew J, Sebag, Jacques, Reuter, Michael A, Goodenow, Iain, Kelvin, Lee S, Yang, Wei, Kannawadi, Arun, Kovacs, Gabor, Hascall, Diane, Bernardinelli, Pedro H, Johann Cohen Tanugi, Kubanek, Petr, Lopez, Margaux, Graham, Melissa L, Juric, Mario, Mullaney, James R, Broughton, Alexander, Reil, Kevin A, Claire Juram

2026

Overview

We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detection catalogs, and ancillary data products. DP1 is based on 1792 optical near infrared exposures acquired over 48 distinct nights by the Rubin Commissioning Camera LSSTComCam on the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Summit Facility on Cerro Pachón Chile in late 2024. DP1 covers \\(\\)15 deg\\(^2\\) distributed across seven roughly equal-sized non-contiguous fields, each independently observed in six broad photometric bands \\(ugrizy\\). The median FWHM of the point spread function across all bands is approximately 1.14 arcseconds, with the sharpest images reaching about 0.58 arcseconds. The 5\\(\\) point source depths for coadded images in the deepest field the Extended Chandra Deep Field South are \\(u\\) = 24.55, \\(g\\) = 26.18, \\(r\\) = 25.96, \\(i\\) = 25.71, \\(z\\) = 25.07, \\(y\\) = 23.1. Other fields are no more than 2.2 magnitudes shallower in any band where they have nonzero coverage. DP1 contains approximately 2.3 million distinct astrophysical objects, of which 1.6 million are extended in at least one band in coadds and 431 solar system objects of which 93 are new discoveries. DP1 is approximately 3.5 TB in size and is available to Rubin data rights holders via the Rubin Science Platform a cloud based environment for the analysis of petascale astronomical data. While small compared to future LSST releases its high quality and diversity of data support a broad range of early science investigations ahead of full operations in 2026.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Celestial bodies / Observatories / Point sources / Point spread functions