Princeton University Survey Science Discussion
Multi-resolution joint analysis of ground and space-based imaging: from improved Rubin/Euclid galaxy catalogs to the study of rare transients
We are entering an exciting decade for survey science, where space-based surveys such as Euclid and ground-based surveys such as LSST and LS4 will provide overlapping imaging datasets across the optical and IR. By jointly analyzing multi-resolution, multi-epoch, and multi-band imaging from complementary surveys, we can combine their strengths to produce improved galaxy catalogs for cosmology while enabling a range of other science cases. I will provide an update on our efforts to enable the joint Euclid/Rubin data releases, and discuss how the multi-resolution forward modeling methods developed in the group are opening up a range of time-domain applications, from the recent discovery of the first non-nuclear TDE from a wandering massive black hole, to uncovering the M-sigma relation for variable AGN populations out to z~5, to enabling improved measurements of the Hubble Constant using strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae.