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):
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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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