Monday, March 23, 2026

Rubin Alert Leads to First Follow-Up Observations and Detection of Four Supernovae

The NSF-NOIRLab Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), located high in the mountains of Chile, studies the southern night sky. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

NSF NOIRLab has completed end-to-end runs of its ecosystem for following up on alerts from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The runs demonstrated how multiple NOIRLab-developed software tools, plus a network of telescopes around the globe, will enable quick follow-up observations of the countless transient objects that Rubin will uncover during its ten-year survey.



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