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In return for these contributions, all professional astronomers in the US and Chile will have data rights, while other international participants will earn rights to the proprietary data through contributions to Rubin LSST operations. Initially, this was expected to follow a subscription model - and, indeed, STFC had signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to secure data rights for a set of UK astronomers that way - but, more recently, the US funding agencies decided that these should be in-kind contributions, which can either help offset the $70M per year Rubin operating costs or add value to the US community’s exploitation of the Rubin LSST dataset through enhancing the production range of user-generated products. Potential international participants submitted in-kind proposals in the autumn of 2020, and they are currently under review, with the expectation that data rights agreements will be signed by late summer 2021.
Rubin LSST Organisation
LSST Science Planning
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