From 99ea392223058587311f58ad09e2c050bfd77a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: leannep Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:08:54 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add statement on benefits to SC membership --- index.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 93276cd..181640c 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ This recommendation is scoped solely to EDF-S, leaving the remainder of Rubin's The risk to Rubin science is minimal: EDF-S covers only about 23 deg2 of Rubin's approximately 18,000 deg2 survey area and does not materially affect any proprietary program. The potential upsides, by contrast, are considerable. +EDF-S data products will be made publicly available shortly after the full proprietary Data Release in which they are produced, and will not affect the Rubin Data Release schedule. + ## Rationale The Euclid Consortium, Rubin Observatory, and NASA's Roman Space Telescope all plan to observe the 23 deg2 Euclid Deep Field South (EDF-S) to a combined depth and cadence beyond any single survey's individual wide-area program. @@ -34,11 +36,12 @@ Applications include weak-lensing cosmology, photometry and redshifts for crowde There is also a strong benefit for AI research. Open datasets have driven some of the most productive advances in AI: the Multimodal Universe dataset, ImageNet, and AlphaFold's structural archive were all released openly from the start, and each catalyzed a research community that built on it for years afterward. A fully public EDF-S would be precisely the kind of open, scientific dataset that programs such as NSF's AI-Ready Datasets solicitation ([NSF 26-512](https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ai-datasets-unlocking-dataset-value-ai-enabled-scientific-discovery/nsf26-512/solicitation)) are designed to advance: rich enough for AI-driven discovery, and open enough for the community to build the enhancement pipelines and cross-survey harmonization tools that such discovery requires. + +A public EDF-S also benefits the community directly: Science Collaborations would no longer need to require data rights as a condition of membership, broadening participation and, in turn, the range of science they can pursue. EDF-S, rather than COSMOS, is proposed for public release because Euclid does not plan to observe COSMOS as one of its primary dedicated deep fields ({cite}`esa_euclid_deepfields`). - Open, non-proprietary fields have historically become the community's most productive resources: the COSMOS field remains a cornerstone of astrophysics decades after its inception, precisely because it was kept open from the start. -But with nearly twenty years of deep imaging from HST, Spitzer, Chandra, and VLA, its remaining discovery potential is limited, and for this reason, Euclid has not chosen it as a deep field. +But with nearly twenty years of deep imaging from HST, Spitzer, Chandra, and the VLA, its remaining discovery potential is limited, and for this reason, Euclid has not chosen it as a deep field. EDF-S is a new field observed by Rubin, Euclid and Roman and has decades of discovery potential ahead of it. A fully open Rubin EDF-S has the potential to do for the next generation what COSMOS did for this one. @@ -60,4 +63,4 @@ A fully open Rubin EDF-S has the potential to do for the next generation what CO % % ```{bibliography} local.bib % :style: lsst_aa -% ``` \ No newline at end of file +% ``` From 20988ea764240d8c0274b80c6b984dfba170b3a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: leannep Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:44:06 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Add esa_euclid_deepfields reference --- local.bib | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/local.bib b/local.bib index 552583d..f57c68f 100644 --- a/local.bib +++ b/local.bib @@ -40,5 +40,4 @@ @online{esa_euclid_deepfields title = {The Euclid Deep Fields}, url = {https://sci.esa.int/web/euclid/-/61408-the-euclid-deep-fields}, urldate = {2026-09-18}, - year = {2024} -} \ No newline at end of file + year = {2024} \ No newline at end of file From fcb67e5a9b95883f98fc52235458639198dab39b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: leannep Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:44:15 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Fix clash --- index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 181640c..6c8a95b 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Applications include weak-lensing cosmology, photometry and redshifts for crowde There is also a strong benefit for AI research. Open datasets have driven some of the most productive advances in AI: the Multimodal Universe dataset, ImageNet, and AlphaFold's structural archive were all released openly from the start, and each catalyzed a research community that built on it for years afterward. A fully public EDF-S would be precisely the kind of open, scientific dataset that programs such as NSF's AI-Ready Datasets solicitation ([NSF 26-512](https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ai-datasets-unlocking-dataset-value-ai-enabled-scientific-discovery/nsf26-512/solicitation)) are designed to advance: rich enough for AI-driven discovery, and open enough for the community to build the enhancement pipelines and cross-survey harmonization tools that such discovery requires. - + A public EDF-S also benefits the community directly: Science Collaborations would no longer need to require data rights as a condition of membership, broadening participation and, in turn, the range of science they can pursue. EDF-S, rather than COSMOS, is proposed for public release because Euclid does not plan to observe COSMOS as one of its primary dedicated deep fields ({cite}`esa_euclid_deepfields`). From f55967bf763585c29d503c7e119768937ae39859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: leannep Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:09:23 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Fix missing } --- local.bib | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/local.bib b/local.bib index f57c68f..f36fbda 100644 --- a/local.bib +++ b/local.bib @@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ @online{esa_euclid_deepfields title = {The Euclid Deep Fields}, url = {https://sci.esa.int/web/euclid/-/61408-the-euclid-deep-fields}, urldate = {2026-09-18}, - year = {2024} \ No newline at end of file + year = {2024} + } \ No newline at end of file