This collection of documentation on the LSST Science Platform (LSP) serves two purposes:
It provides information for the members of the DAC team who are conducting the LSP Initial Evaluation (WP2.4.02). That is intended to steer the development and deployment work required prior to the release of UKDAC1 on 2020-10-01.
It provides information for the members of the LSST:UK Consortium who are reviewing D2.5.1. That comprises UK DAC Documentation Release 1, which is to be reviewed with an eye to providing guidance on the documentation to be provided for the test users of UKDAC1.
Background Information
The LSST Science Platform is the set of web applications and services provided by the Rubin Observatory Data Management team for deployment in Data Access Centres to facilitate analysis of LSST data products. As described in the LSST Science Platform Vision Document and illustrated in the figure below, it comprises three aspects:
Portal Aspect: a web interface for exploration and basic manipulation of image and catalogue data, based on IPAC’s existing Firefly tool;
Notebook Aspect: an environment, based on JupyterLab, which allows users to run data analysis tasks within notebooks; and
Web API Aspect: enabling users to access LSST data products with familiar client tool through use of IVOA protocols.
The UK DAC deployment of the LSP will run on computational infrastructure provided by the IRIS initiative, with user support provided by the UK DAC team.
