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Many of the astrophysical insights that the LSST will provide will stem directly from the sheer volume of data delivered by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. In many cases it will be impractical, if not impossible, to download and locally process the large amounts of data that will deliver the most groundbreaking research. With this in mind, the Rubin project will instead employ a “bring-your-code-to-the-data” model, whereby most data remains and is analysed within the Data Access Centres via the Rubin Science Platform (RSP).

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In response to the expressions of interest, a number of institutes around the UK have been identified as being well-located to host a session. There is roughly one location per region, and attempts have been made to select intitutes institutes in such a way that the minimise minimises total travel time for all of those that expressed an interest. Further, it is expected that most people who have expressed an interest are within roughly one hour’s train journey from at least one session. The chosen locations are outlined in the table below (ordered according to date):

Location

Date

Time
(for transport bookings)

Serving1
(indicative)

U. of Nottingham

17 Jan 2024

11am-4pm2
(Note different start time to other sessions)

Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Warwick, Keele

U. of Oxford

22 Jan 2024

1pm-5pm

Oxford, Hertfordshire, OU

U. of Portsmouth

24 Jan 2024

1pm-5pm

Portsmouth, Southampton, Sussex*

U. of Surrey

25 Jan 2024

1pm-5pm

London universities, Sussex*

U. of Cambridge

TBC3

 

Cambridge

U. of Bath

21 Feb 2024

1pm-5pm

Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Exeter

Queen’s Belfast

29 Feb 2024

1pm-5pm

Belfast, Armagh

Durham University

14 March 2024

1pm-5pm

Durham, Newcastle

U. of Edinburgh

15 March 2024

12pm-5pm2
(Note different start time to the other sessions)

Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews

Lancaster University

20 March 2024

1pm-5pm

Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, UCLAN

Online4

TBC

 

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Notes:
1 Booked room sizes are based on our expectation that most people will attend their nearest session (see the “Serving” column), but small numbers may attend other sessions. If the latter’s the case for you, please contact me to make sure there will be space.
2 Nottingham’s and Edinburgh’s sessions include a lunch break (lunch not provided!)
3 I’m actively liaising with Cambridge to settle on a date.
4 The online session will happen after all the in-person sessions have taken place. In-person attendance is, however, preferred in order to aide discussion and feeding-back desires for the RSP.

Detailed information regarding precise locations (room numbers and how-to-get-there instructions) will be added to this page over the coming weeks.

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  • how to determine what types of data (exposures, coadds, detection tables, etc) is held within the RSP;

  • how to determine what data of a given type is present in the RSP (i.e., a coadd covering this patch of sky);

  • what the Table Access Platform Protocol and Data Butler are, and how to use them;

  • how to retrieve table data and pixel-level data;

  • retrieving static and time-series data;

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