Preparing for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to drastically increase our knowledge of the solar system, with over ~6 million new planetesimals expected to be discovered during the course of its ten-year mission. This unprecedented survey of the night sky brings with it unprecedented challenges. A vast amount of community software is in the process of being created for the exploration of the immense amounts of data this survey will produce. I have helped to develop the open source solar system survey simulator "Sorcha". A survey simulator built for LSST. I am currently working to integrate a previous surveys into Sorcha called the Dark Energy Survey. Allowing users to not only create predictions for LSST but validate these models with previous surveys all in the same software. I've also helped in the creation of an orbit-fitter called layup which will be embedded into the LSST data processing pipeline to fit orbits to discovered small body detections.

Biography

I graduated in Summer 2024 from an undergraduate MPhys course with a first class degree in Physics and started my Phd in QUB on October 2024. I have a passion for all things mathematical and problem solving. My hobbies are reading, learning new coding languages and solving puzzles.

Publications

For a full list of publications I have contributed to see: ORCID

Research Interests

• Distant TNO popualations in the Kuiper Belt and beyond
• Survey simulators
• Software development for astronomy
• Outlier detection in solar system bodies