Introduction
November 14th News Digest - https://www.lsst.org/news/digest/14nov2023
Dome crane repaired and used to reinstall ComCam
Next year’s PCW will be hybrid, not wholly online, as previously noted
Those with ideas for future newsletter items should contact the LSST:UK Project Managers (George Beckett and Terry Sloanlusc_pm@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk), while everyone is encouraged to subscribe to the Rubin Observatory Digest for more general news from the US observatory team.
Lasair Notebook Marshall
The Lasair project has released its “notebook marshall”, a Jupyter notebook that fetches the output of any Lasair filter. The screenshot below was filtered by the Zooniverse pre-query authored by Ken Smith. You can see the supernova in the centre of the Science image – near the centre of the lovely spiral NGC 1086 at 55 Mpc.
At the top are the attributes selected by the filter, then lightcurves, the ZTF reference and latest image, and the colour image from Pan-STARRS. The SN II is already registered in TNS, and has a link. There are two checkboxes, and a place for a comment. Ticking “veto” means the object will not be seen again (like the object at the bottom of the image), and ticking “fave” means it will be emphasised next time. If the notebook is run again, a new set of results is shown, until all have been seen. Using the notebook for eyeballing is much easier than having Lasair send email notification. The filter must be streaming kafka, and you will need a Lasair login and API token. Code and instructions are here, and there is a video demonstration here.
LUSC Team Meeting in Lancaster
Terry Sloan and Bob Mann
Highlights of the Project Assurance Report for April - September 2023
Terry Sloan and Bob Mann
Recent LSST:UK Science Centre outputs
The LSST:UK Science Centre has recently produced the following technical reports.
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Forthcoming meetings of interest
Things are relatively quiet, meeting-wise, over the next month or so. However there are still several upcoming meeting, which may be of interest, plus some provisional dates for your diary in early 2024:
Dates | Meeting Title/ Event | Meeting Website/ Contact | Venue |
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12/Mar/24—15/Mar/24 | Preparing for the Statistical Age of Strong Gravitational Lens Science with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) | Pre-registration will open in October (meeting dates are tbc). More information available from Aprajita Verma . | Oxford, UK |
22/Jan/24 - 26/Jan/24 | What was that? - planning ESO follow up for transients, variables and solar system objects in the era of LSST | ||
11/Dec/23—15/Dec/23 | Unveiling the Dynamic Universe: Cosmic Streams in the Era of Rubin | Puerto Varas, Chile |
Members of the Consortium (not in receipt of travel funding through one of the Science Centre grants) may apply for travel support for meetings of this kind via the the LSST:UK Pool Travel Fund. Details are available at Forthcoming LSST-related Meetings .
Note that the current list of forthcoming meeting is always available on the Relevant Meetings page. You may also wish to check information held on the LSST organisation website LSST-organised events and the LSST Corporation website.
Announcements
If you have significant announcements that are directly relevant to LSST:UK and would like to share the announcement in a future newsletter, please contact the LSST:UK project managers.