5 September 2024

Present:

Agenda

• What is Lasair

• Rubin schedule

• Future discussion items

Discussion topics

• ZTF continuation

  • We are not paid for ZTF

  • 2 codebase, ZTF and LSST websites, same documentation, same API

  • published paper

• Onboarding new users

  • Why choose Lasair?

  • /wiki/spaces/LUSC/pages/3467804931

  • Intro materials

    • Quickstart and serious videos and joky video

    • Text/video/notebook?

    • Menu of sample filters to choose and modify?

• Queryable attributes copied from LSST schema

  • Proper motion/parallax, error, covariance?

  • Current object attributes and all LSST object attributes

• Lightcurve schema and features

  • Flux vs magnitude (difference flux is ofter negative!)

  • Existing LC features here and here

  • New features

    • Fastfinder

    • Colour from revisits?

    • Achromatic features?

• Kafka ecology

  • Consuming filter output

  • Annotating Lasair objects

  • Consuming Alerce and Fink

  • Rate-limited consumer