The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.
SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the completed LSST Camera.
Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) on SLAC's campus. The facility supports scientific endeavors that require the handling of unprecedented data streams.
Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of microwave power to accelerate the electron beam from the new source. Electrons passing through the cavities will draw energy from...