“The Faint Universe with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time”
Professor Sarah Brough
Head, School of Physics
UNSW Sydney
Date: Thursday, 19 March 2026, 5.30 pm for 6.00 – 7.00 pm AEDT
Venue: NEX, Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, 309 King Street, Newcastle West, NSW
Registration: Registration is required by 2.00 pm AEDT, Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Entry: Members, $15; Non-members, $25; Students: $5
Enquiries: by email to the Hunter Branch Chair
All are welcome
Summary: Our understanding of the evolution of our own and other galaxies will be transformed by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which begins later this year. This 10-year program, carried out by Chile’s Vera C Rubin Observatory, will use a 3,200-megapixel camera to make sensitive observations of the whole southern sky, studying faint stellar features around galaxies (shells, tidal tails, halos and stellar streams) and making the first statistically significant measurements of the diffuse stellar light at the centre of galaxy clusters. Interpreting and learning from this data will be a worldwide endeavour. I will present the LSST survey and describe the anticipated role of Australian astronomers.
Professor Sarah Brough is the Head of the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney, Chair of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Astronomy, and she represents Australia on the intergovernmental European Southern Observatory Council.
| Royal Society of NSW Hunter Branch | |
| Date: | Thursday, 19 March 2026, 06:00 PM |
| Venue: | NEX, Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, 309 King Street, Newcastle West, NSW |
| Entry: | Members, $15; Non-members, $25; Students, $5 |
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