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Sept 8th 1300-1800 BST
Zoom Link (fReFz0LZ)
Resulting meeting notes and actions
Session-1: Overviews (chair: Roy Williams)
1300: Welcomes
1305: LSST:UK context (Stephen Smartt)
1315: Lasair long term plan (Andy Lawrence)
1325: Discussion
Session-2: ZTF prototype experience (chair: Stephen Smartt)
1335: Lasair-ZTF and how it works (Roy Williams)
1345: Science experience with ZTF (Matt Nicholl)
1355: Differences between ZTF and LSST (Eric Bellm)
1405: Discussion
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Session-3: Architecture and Technology (chair: Andy Lawrence)
1435: Lasair-LSST Architecture (Roy Williams)
1445: Kafka processing (Gareth Francis/Roy Williams)
1455: Hardware implementation (Roy Williams)
1505: Light curve classification (Michael Fulton)
1515: Discussion
Session-4 Science processing and functionality (chair: Meg Schwamb)
1530: Adding value: Sherlock (Dave Young)
1540: Annotation, features (Roy Williams)
1550: Databases and storage : SQL, Cassandra, CephFS (Ken Smith)
1600: Classification with FINK (Julien Peloton)
1610: Multi-messenger science with AMPEL (Jakob Nordin)
1620: Discussion
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Session-5: User Interface (chair: Dave Young)
1650 Queries, streaming, mining (Roy Williams)
1700 Web interface (Andy Lawrence)
1710 API and notebooks (Ken Smith)
1720 Tools interface (Andy Lawrence)
1730: Discussion
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Below we supply a fairly comprehensive set of background material. Team members will be familiar with all this. Other attendees are not expected to read it all - its there for reference if you want it. If you read only one thing in advance, read this:
Community Broker proposal (Dec 2020)
and maybe take a look at the latest version of the top-level architecture
lasair.roe.a.cac.uk is the official public version of the ZTF prototype (Lasair 2.0), from Mar 2020
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LSST:UK project documents
LSST:UK Phase B proposal
LSST:UK Science Requirements Document (D1.2.1) (Mar 2020)
LSST:UK long term plan (D1.1.1) (Mar 2020 update)
Lasair top level plan (Oct 2019)
Lessons learned from ZTF prototype (D2.3.1) (Nov 2020)
Lasair-ZTF prototype
Lasair real time monitor (grafana)
username = lasair; password = je7Wb2fY9t
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Annotations for Lasair Objects
Notes on ZTF forced photometry
Rubin Project documents
Data Products Definition Document (LSE-163)
Plans and Policies for Alert Distribution (LDM-612)
LSST alerts: Key numbers (DMTN-102)
Performance of Cassandra-based APDB implementation (DMTN-156)
Review of Time Series Features: DMTN-118 (May 2021)
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Does the Annotation model line up with the Zooniverse one?
Participants
Externals
Eric Bellm
Matt Nicholl
Cosimo Inserra
Sarah Casewell
Julien Peloton
Jakob Nordin
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