Access to proprietary LSST data, as well as some pre-survey resources, such as the Data Previews, is restricted to those with data rights, which, for those outside the US and Chile, is awarded in exchange for in-kind contributions to Rubin operations. STFC is funding the in-kind programme that will provide UK researchers with data rights, which will be enshrined in a Data Rights Agreement they will sign with the US Department of Energy. While that has yet to be signed, UK researchers are being awarded data rights slots, up to the number determined by the Rubin Observatory to be the value of the UK in-kind programme.

Data rights holders fall into one of two categories - Principal Investigators and Junior Associates - defined by Rubin Data Rights Policy, and selection rounds to populate the list of UK data rights holders are held on a twice-yearly basis, announced via the lusc-announce email list. The LSST:UK Consortium Board owns the lists, but has delegated the role of proposing names for them to a separate LSST:UK PI Selection Committee, which implements the LSST:UK policy for selection of Affiliate PIs and Junior Associates, the current version of which will always be available from this page, as will current and previous versions of the AP and JA lists themselves.

The Rubin Observatory maintain a current list of all International Data-rights Holders. The UK subset of this list (including historical information) is provided below.

LSST:UK PI and Junior Associate list

• 2024

• 2023H2

• 2023

• 2022H2

• 2022

• 2021H2

• 2021

• 2020H2

• 2020

• 2019Q2

• 2019

• 2018

• 2017

• 2016

• 2015 

Data Rights Holders Onboarding

Further onboarding information for data rights holders is available here.

LSST:UK policy for selection of Affiliate PIs and Junior Associates

• Version 1.03 (2017-09-30): to be used for selection of the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Affiliate PIs and Junior Associates

• Version 1.02 (2016-09-08) : used for selection of the 2017 Affiliate PIs and Junior Associates

• Version 0.95 (2016-03-10): used for selection of the 2016 Affiliate PIs and Junior Associates