VST Science Workshop 2026

Session

Session 1: Rubin-LSST in-kind@VST

9 Apr 2026, 11:30

Sala Cimmino (Monte Mario)

27. Rubin-LSST@Italy, in-kind program status & perspectives

Massimo Brescia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09/04/2026, 11:30

Invited talk

8. VST as a Facility for Rubin/LSST Follow-up

Dr Felice Cusano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09/04/2026, 11:50

Contributed talk

The advent of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce an unprecedented stream of transient and variable sources requiring rapid photometric follow-up. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), with its wide field of view and imaging capabilities, is well suited to play a key role in this effort. In the context of the INAF in-kind contribution S18 to the Rubin...

9. Unveiling the Transient Universe: VST Synergies with Euclid and Rubin

Vincenzo Petrecca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09/04/2026, 12:10

Contributed talk

Time Domain Astronomy is living a golden era thanks to next-generation facilities extending our view of the transient Universe in a larger range of wavelengths and detecting hundreds of thousands of extra-galactic transients. Among all, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has recently begun circulating worldwide alerts for new transient and variable...

13. The Timedomes project: building on the VST legacy in the time domain

Prof. Maurizio Paolillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

09/04/2026, 12:30

Contributed talk

I will present the status of the Timedomes project, started in 2021 and proposed as an in-kind contribution to the LSST collaboration. The program is targeting 4 sq.deg. of four of the LSST DDFs in two bands with 8 or more epochs each semester, in order to improve the temporal coverage of the fields up to the beginning of LSST observations. These data, complemented by all archival VST...

24. Exploiting the synergy between LSST and VST to investigate the cosmos: the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe measured through the time delays of strongly lensed variable sources

Prof. Claudio Grillo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09/04/2026, 12:50

Contributed talk

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory (LSST) will discover thousands of new multiply imaged quasars and supernovae (Oguri & Marshall 2010). In P3 and P4, we have proposed monitoring observations with the VST of quasars multiply lensed by galaxies and galaxy clusters, that will belong to the final LSST sample, to accurately measure the multiple image light curves, thus their time delays. We aim at...