Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.

About

I am a Scheduler Scientist in the Survey Scheduling Team for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Currently, most of my effort is focused on development of scheduler and progress visualization and monitoring tools. Previously, I developed the automated schedulers for the Dark Energy Survey and the SDSS photometric telescope. I also played other important roles in these and other projects, including survey observing operations optimization and support, development of observing operations and data processing software, preparation of data releases, and observing both in commissioning and production.

Employment

• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Computational Physics Developer
  2000 - Present

Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology M.A.S.
  2002 - 2006
• Johns Hopkins University Ph. D.
  1992 - 1999
• Kenyon College A. B.
  1988 - 1992

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (69)

• LSST Scheduler & Progress Monitoring
  2026 DOI: 10.2172/3674519
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• Scheduling the LSST: commissioning the Rubin feature-based scheduler
  Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems XI 2026 DOI: 10.1117/12.3104048
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• Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane
  The Astronomical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acf7c3
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• The Impact of Observing Strategy on Cosmological Constraints with LSST
  Michelle Lochner, Dan Scolnic, Husni Almoubayyed +25 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac5033
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• Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design
  Federica Bettina Bianco, Željko Ivezić, Lynne Jones +44 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac3e72
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Deep Field optical + near-infrared images and catalogue
  W. G. Hartley, A. Choi, Alexandra Amon +97 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3055
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• The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2021 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac079d
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• The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2
  T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamów, M. Aguena +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2021 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac00b3
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• Identifying RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Six Years of the Dark Energy Survey
  K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri +66 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2021 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe873
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• Dark Energy Survey’s Observation Strategy, Tactics, and Exposure Scheduler
  2019 DOI: 10.2172/1574836
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• The Dark Energy Survey and Operations: Year 6 – The Finale
  [] 2019 DOI: 10.2172/1596042
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• The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1
  T. M. C. Abbott, Filipe Batoni Abdalla, S. Allam +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aae9f0
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• Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Deep Drilling Fields and other Special Programs
  arXiv e-prints 2018
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• Dark energy survey operations: years 4 and 5
  R. A. Gruendl, Douglas L. Tucker, S. Bocquet +97 more
  Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII 2018 DOI: 10.1117/12.2312113
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• The Dark Energy Survey Image Processing Pipeline
  E. Morganson, R. A. Gruendl, F. Menanteau +40 more
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2018 DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/aab4ef
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The Photometric Data Set for Cosmology
  A. Drlica-Wagner, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Eli S Rykoff +86 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aab4f5
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• Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
  arXiv e-prints 2017
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• A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey
  The Astrophysical Journal (Online) 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d09
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• The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview
  Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, Filipe Batoni Abdalla +97 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw641
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• A DECam search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave event GW151226
  P. S. Cowperthwaite, Edo Berger, M. Soares-Santos +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal. Letters 2016 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L29
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