DMTN-102: LSST Alerts: Key Numbers
A quantitative review of the key numbers associated with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Alert Stream.
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Guy, Leanne P.
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DMTN-065: Data Management for LSST Special Programs
Special Programs are additional survey areas and/or observing strategies that are driven by specific science goals which build on, or are beyond, the core science pillars of the Wide Fast Deep Main Survey. In order to meet the requirements and enable science related to Special Programs, this document provides recommendations for Rubin Data Management regarding processing and serving data products for Special Programs. Hardware and processing boundaries on the potential diversity of data from Special Programs are discussed along with scenarios in which user-generated processing and data products might be needed to meet Special Programs' science goals.
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LSE-163: Data Products Definition Document
This document describes the data products and processing services to be delivered by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory whilst performing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). LSST will deliver three levels of data products and services. Prompt data products are computed and released within 24 hours of observation, and include images, difference images, catalogs of sources and objects detected in difference images, and catalogs of Solar System objects. Their primary purpose is to enable rapid follow-up of time-domain events. Data Release data products are computed during annual processing campaigns, and include well-calibrated single-epoch images, deep coadds, and catalogs of objects, sources, and forced sources, enabling static sky and precision time-domain science. The Science Platform will allow for the creation of User Generated data products and will enable science cases that greatly benefit from co-location of user processing and/or data within the Rubin Observatory Data Access Center. LSST will also devote 10% of observing time to programs with special cadence. Their data products will be created using the same software and hardware as Prompt and Data Release products. All data products will be made available using user-friendly databases and web services.
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LDM-612: Plans and Policies for LSST Alert Distribution
A major product of the nightly processing of LSST images is a world-public stream of alerts from transient, variable, and moving sources. Science users will access these alerts through community brokers or through a simple filtering service provided by LSST. This document provides a guide to the plans and policies for the alert distribution system to aid science users, broker developers, funding agencies, and LSST Project personnel. It describes the components of the alert distribution system and the data rights required to access specific scientific products. It provides guidelines for organizations developing community brokers and describes the planned capabilities of the LSST simple alert filtering service and Science Platform to aid science users in planning for LSST science.
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DMTN-107: Options for Alert Production in LSST Operations Year 1
This document reviews five options for alert production in LSST Operations Year 1 (LOY1), taking into account any implications on LSST formal requirements including up-scopes, down-scopes or explicit violations. The Data Management System Science Team's preferred option for maximizing LSST science is to generate template images from as much of the data from the commissioning and/or science verification phases as possible and use them to run Difference Image Analysis and alert production during LOY1. A proposal to increase the sky area covered during commissioning via a "filler" scheduler program is also presented. As a potential moderate up-scope, this study presents an option to build interim templates on a $\sim$monthly basis during LOY1, which could increase the accessible sky area by ~1000-2000 deg**2 per month, and should be reconsidered closer to the start of Operations.
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LSE-319: LSST Science Platform Vision Document
This document defines and describes the "LSST Science Platform," a set of integrated web applications and services deployed at the LSST Data Access Centers (DACs) through which the scientific community will access, visualize, subset, and perform next-to-the-data analysis of the data collected by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). These services can be broken down to three different "Aspects": a web Portal, designed to provide essential data access and visualization services through a simple-to-use website, a Notebook environment, that will provide a Jupyter Notebook-like interface, based on JupyterLab, enabling next-to-the-data analysis, and an extensive set of Web APIs that the users will be able to use to remotely examine the LSST data set using tools they're already familiar with. This document lays out the high-level vision for the aforementioned Aspects and some associated backend services. It is intentionally brief, and meant to generally guide the flow-down of requirements and development of product specifications, prioritization, and plans for the Agile development of the relevant elements of the DM system.
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