2023 September 13 at 14:00 to 17:00
2023 September 14 to 09:30 to 16:00
Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
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Accommodation: University rooms website, Booking.com has many options. Area north of Denys Wilkinson toward Summertown is also good area (walk or direct and frequent short bus).
Deadline for registration (using above form) : 1st September 2023.
What is this meeting about ?
We have built and released a new version of Lasair, with a new user interface and documentation that continues to work with the ZTF data stream. The alerts from LSST will be quite different in volume, depth, number of filters and alert packet scientific content (e.g forced flux values). In the second half of 2024, we expect to receive and process the first real data alerts from Rubin.
Now is the time to review what we provide and how we can support the community when LSST data stream starts.
We are running a meeting to engage the astronomy community, to demonstrate the capabilities of Lasair, and to discover what scientists want from the alert stream. The meeting will include:
Introduction to Lasair and tutorial, including: reducing millions of alerts to the ones you want; intelligent crossmatch with the big catalogues; making a watchlist of your favourite objects; automating response to interesting alerts; sharing filters, watchlists, and classifiers; annotating the Lasair stream.
Contribute and collaborate by presenting your ideas: share a scientific case study of mining the LSST alert stream and/or run a discussion section on how your science can benefit from the alert stream.
The LSST:UK project is not only about rapid alerts but all aspects of LSST science. Mining our archive of alerts; how we link to the Science Platform; how can the rapid alerts and data releases work together effectively?
We welcome experienced users and new users at meeting and there will be plenty of opportunities for interaction, small group working and discussion and one-to-one help.
The outline timetable is below and we welcome requests or suggestions for topics and sessions. It is currently in development and very flexible.
Wednesday September 13th
Morning to lunchtime : arrival and informal meetings with the Lasair team (Lasair team will be available from morning for any requested discussions).
Morning to Lunch (13:00) | Lasair team available for tutorials, demos, discussions. Location : Astrophysics Data Laboratory, top floor of Tower (Level 7 of DWB) |
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13:00 - 13:50 Lunch (provided)
14:00 - 15:30 | Overview of Lasair ZTF and what changes we foresee for Lasair LSST (Chair: TBD) | |
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14:00 - 14:15 | Introduction and overview : Rubin project schedule and alerts | Stephen Smartt |
14:15 - 14:45 | Overview of Lasair | Roy Williams |
14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A on Lasair | Chair TBD |
15:00 - 15:15 | Catalogue cross-matching and Sherlock | Dave Young |
15:15 - 15:30 | Using the Lasair API | Ken Smith |
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:30 | Science cases - session I (Chair:TBD) | |
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16:00 - 16:20 | Lasair + TiDES | Chris Frohmaier |
16:20 - 16:40 | Lasair and fast transients | Matt Nicholl (TBD) |
16:40 - 17:00 | Lasair and slow transients | Phil Wiseman |
17:00 - 17:30 | Open Discussion time or additional science cases |
Some suggested topics for discussion time : communication between Lasair and TIDES (transient classification),
Evening - drinks and dinner, locations TBD
Thursday September 14th
09:15 - 11:00 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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09:15 - 09:30 | Faint transients, outbursts, detection efficiencies | Morgan Fraser |
09:30 - 09:45 | NEEDLE - image classifier | Xinyue Shang |
09:45 - 10:00 | Searches for lensed transients with Lasair | Ana Sainz de Murieta, Mark Magee |
10:00 - 10:15 | LSST and lensing | Suhail Dhawan |
10:15 - 10:30 | Lasair user experience | Dan Ryzcanowski |
10:30 - 10:45 | Lasair user experience | Harry Addison |
10:45 - 11:00 |
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 11:50 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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11:30 - 11:40 | Stellar binaries and variables with Lasair | Sarah Casewell |
11:40 - 11:50 | What Lasair can do for solar system and Adler | Meg Schwamb |
11:50 - 12:45 | Breakout group discussions. Break into groups, more detailed discussion about science and user requirements |
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Slow transients | |
Fast transients and GW counterparts | |
Lensed SNe | |
Stars and variability | |
Others to be decided at meeting |
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45 - 14:45 | Reports from groups |
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14:45 - 15:15 Tea
15:15 - 16:00 | Discussions and user requirements |
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16:00 Finish