The Lasair project is funded within LSST:UK Phase B and C awards to deliver a working platform for the scientific exploitation of time domain data from the Rubin Observatory. As part of this development we exploit the Zwicky Transient Facility data stream. Access to the ZTF and Rubin data is fully public, world-wide and there is no restriction to the data access and scientific use, nor any formal further requirement. Science users in the UK, within the Rubin community (i.e. data rights holders) and world-wide can access scientific data and publish papers based on the results with no additional requirement or permission from the Lasair team. We do request proper acknowledgement, citations and credit as is standard good practice in scientific publishing.
General papers that use the Lasair platform, interface, tools and database
No co-authorship of the Lasair builder team is required. Users should cite the following paper and add the acknowledgement below to their paper :
Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK, K. W. Smith, R. D. Williams et. al., Research Notes AAS, 3,26 (2019).
Lasair is supported by the UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council and is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh (grant ST/N002512/1) and Queen’s University Belfast (grant ST/N002520/1) within the LSST:UK Science Consortium
TO DO : UPDATE THE ABOVE WITH NEW PHASE C GRANT NUMBERS
Lasair system papers written by, or with, the Lasair team
Papers that have been written by the Lasair team, such as those describing the software, design, infrastructure etc will be defined as Lasair system papers. These core papers will offer co-authorship to the team of Lasair Builders, which consists of
G. Francis
A. Lawrence
R. Williams
K. W. Smith
D. R. Young
S. J. Smartt
Other individuals who conceive and write papers that are based on developing the Lasair infrastructure and provision(e.g. filters, features, classification) and for whom interaction with the Lasair team is central to the paper should offer co-authorship to the Lasair Builder list.
The Lasair Builders request that a period of at least 2 weeks should be given between the circulation of the draft for comment and co-authorship and submission.
The Lasair Builders acknowledge that they must explicitly agree to co-authorship and their name appearing on the paper. If any of the Builders do not respond explicitly by the deadline requested, then the author of the paper should progress without those co-author names i.e. the Lasair policy is one of explicitly opting in and Builders must abide by this.