# ApJS Focus Issue dedicated to the Rubin LSST Survey Strategy Optimization process **URL:** \ **Category:** Survey Strategy\ **Created:** [June 10, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299 "2021-06-10T16:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/1 "2021-06-10T16:42:02Z")
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement is planning to release a Focus Issue dedicated to the Rubin LSST Cadence Optimization process. This issue will welcome work related to the Cadence Notes as well as unpublished work related to the 2018 Cadence White Papers to be considered as peer review papers. `The Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will provide unprecedented data which will be made available to all US and Chilean scientists and to international partners for a diverse range of astrophysical problems, from cosmology to Solar System studies and from stellar astrophysics to transients to galaxy evolution. In any synoptic survey such as this one, the choice of cadence - the pattern in which the telescope moves across the sky and periodically revisits each field - is of vital importance in maximizing the scientific utility of the data. Yet, identifying the optimal cadence for a broad range of scientific goals is a challenge. As part of the survey design and characterization process, Rubin Observatory involved the LSST science community by soliciting white papers and "cadence notes". Peer-reviewed journal articles describing scientific investigations that motivate and support these "cadence notes" (available at https://www.lsst.org/content/survey-cadence-notes-2021) are published in this issue as a record of the factors which influenced survey design, and for guidance for future surveys that may confront many of the same issues facing the Vera Rubin Observatory.` To submit a paper to this Focus Issue: - Submit as a normal paper through normal ApJS [https://journals.aas.org/astrophysical-supplement-series](https://journals.aas.org/astrophysical-supplement-series) - Use the “instrumentation lab astrophysics, software, data” track - Include a cover note that says this “To be considered for the ApJS Rubin Cadence Focus Issues” You can contact the Science Collaborations Coordinator @fed[fbianco@udel.edu](mailto:fbianco@udel.edu) ---
**Author:** ![MelissaGraham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/melissagraham/32/2549_2.png) [@MelissaGraham](https://www.rubin.community/u/MelissaGraham)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/2 "2021-06-10T16:57:33Z")
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**Author:** ![lzkelley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/lzkelley/32/1593_2.png) [@lzkelley](https://www.rubin.community/u/lzkelley)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/3 "2021-06-18T19:00:59Z")
Is there any information available about submission deadlines for this Focus issue? ---
**Author:** ![ljones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ljones/32/1804_2.png) [@ljones](https://www.rubin.community/u/ljones)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/4 "2021-06-29T17:11:56Z")
I think the focus issue is open for submissions now and should continue to accept submissions until the closing paper of the SCOC deliberations is submitted - a date that is more fuzzy, but would not be earlier than the end of 2021. (@fed?) ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/5 "2021-08-10T03:14:32Z")
sorry I never noticed the question. Indeed as @ljones said the issue is open for rolling submissions through the end of the SCOC process, into 2022 ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/6 "2021-08-10T03:16:46Z")
The Opening Paper of the Focus Issue is available on the [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01683) (in the version under review at ApJS) - this paper contains background material that supports all papers in the issue. ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/apjs-focus-issue-dedicated-to-the-rubin-lsst-survey-strategy-optimization-process/5299/7 "2024-01-19T14:44:33Z")
The ApJS issue continues to accept submissions! We have 20 papers already in and more under review and we expect submissions will be accepted through 2024. Here is the link to the [Focus Issue](https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0067-0049/page/rubin_cadence) See instructions in the first post in this thread.