Siddharth Chaini
sidchaini.bsky.social
Siddharth Chaini
@sidchaini.bsky.social
(Astro) Physics PhD student at the University of Delaware. Working on transient science/big data for the LSST era. AKA Sid Chaini.
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Lights, camera, action!

The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩

The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭

🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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It’s. Friday. Night.

I’ve done enough this week.

You have done enough this week.

(Yes, you.)
December 13, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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When headline writers say things like “defies known science” or “should be impossible” or “baffles scientists” they’re feeding an attitude that scientific results should all be taken as not just contingent, but completely meaningless. It breeds distrust or even contempt toward science & scientists
November 9, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Photons, meet the Commissioning Camera 🤝

On October 24, Rubin staff successfully completed the first end-to-end on-sky test of the full telescope system using the testing camera — from capturing the sky to transferring data to SLAC! 🔭🧪

🔗: https://rubinobservatory.org/news/test-camera-sees-sky
October 29, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Excited to unveil our new project, DistClassiPy - it went up on arXiv today!

arxiv.org/abs/2403.12120

We used distance metrics to classify astrophysical light curves, but you can use it for your data too!

Try it out here: github.com/sidchaini/Di...
Light Curve Classification with DistClassiPy: a new distance-based...
The rise of synoptic sky surveys has ushered in an era of big data in time-domain astronomy, making data science and machine learning essential tools for studying celestial objects. Tree-based...
arxiv.org
March 20, 2024 at 7:02 PM