Present:
Agenda
What is Lasair
Rubin schedule
Future discussion items
Discussion topics
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ZTF continuation
We are not paid for ZTF
2 codebase, ZTF and LSST websites, same documentation, same API
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Onboarding new users
Why choose Lasair?
Intro materials
Quickstart and serious videos and joky video
Text/video/notebook?
Menu of sample filters to choose and modify?
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Queryable attributes copied from LSST schema
Proper motion/parallax, error, covariance?
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Lightcurve schema and features
Flux vs magnitude (difference flux is often negative!)
New features
Fastfinder
Colour from revisits?
Achromatic features?
Kafka ecology
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Consuming filter output
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Annotating Lasair objects
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Consuming Alerce and Fink
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Start: 10:00 BST
Finish: 11:30 BST
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88672739537?pwd=OKP6GSkcNguekRXxhH0RwGZOaJRmZN.1
Link to recording: here
LUG Members attending:
Sarah Casewell, Adam McMaster, Dan Ryczanowski,Xinyue Sheng
Apologies: Iair Arcavi
Lasair Team attending: Roy Williams, Andy Lawrence, Stephen Smartt
Agenda
Introductions (everybody: 5 mins)
Sarah Casewell – stellar and exoplanet
Adam McMaster – microlensing
Dan Ryczanowski – strong lensing
Xinyue Sheng – supernova classification
Iair Arcavi – tidal disruption events
Goals today (Andy: 5 mins)
Lasair overview (Roy: 10 mins)
Rubin schedule context (Stephen: 10 mins)
Current key issues (Roy: 20 mins)
General discussion (Everybody: 20 mins)
Features
Parallax + error is wanted
Use box least squares for periodicity
Follow LSST with flux primary and magnitude available but secondary
Marshall notebook is useful
Adding extra information would be useful
How to make the marshall shared
How to find increased flux by 2% in all filters – microlensing
Members discussion (Andy, Roy and Stephen temporarily leave: 10 mins)
Dan will be convener with Xingue as deputy
Check that Iair is OK with that
How to join multiple transient surveys
Plans for next meeting (Andy: 10 mins)
Users meeting in Oxford Dec 9 with LUG meeting
Looks like Dan can edit the meeting pages