LUG meeting: 2024 September 5th

Start: 10:00 BST
Finish: 11:30 BST

Zoom link

Agenda

• Introductions (everybody: 5 mins)

• Goals today (Andy: 5 mins)

• Lasair overview (Roy: 10 mins)

  • published paper

• Rubin schedule context (Stephen or Andy: 10 mins)

• Current key issues (Roy: 20 mins)

• Discussion (Everbody: 40 mins)

Discussion topics

• ZTF continuation

  • We are not paid for ZTF

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

• 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 often 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