LSST:UK Technical Reports (Phase B)

Technical Reports

No.

WP

Author

Title

Status/ Download Link

No.

WP

Author

Title

Status/ Download Link

LUSC-B-01

1.1

Bob Mann

D1.1.1 Long-term Plan (Mar '20)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-02

1.2

Stephen Smartt

D1.2.1 Science Requirements Document (Mar '20)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-03

2.1

George Beckett

D2.1.1 DAC Roadmap and Integration Plan for DEV Activities 

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-04

2.5

Bob Mann, Stelios Voutsinas, Roy Williams

D2.5.1 Training resources for LSST:UK DAC users

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-05

2.2

Mike Read

D2.2.1 Report on data transfer and ingest experiments for DESC DC2

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-06

3.10

James Perry

D3.10.5 Processing DC2 data using the LSST DM Stack on UK Facilities

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-07

2.4

Stelios Voutsinas, Andy Lawrence, Bob Mann, Roy Williams

Initial Evaluation of LSST Science Platform (WP2.4.0.2)

DELETED

LUSC-B-08

3.11

Tim Naylor and Tom Wilson

D3.11.1 Model for crowding at LSST depths

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-09

2.3

Roy Williams, Ken Smith, Stephen Smartt, Andy Lawrence, Gareth Francis

D2.3.1 Lessons Learned from Lasair-ZTF

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-10

3.7

Aaron Watkins, Chris Collins, Sugata Kaviraj

D3.7.1 Report on optimal metrics for measuring the impact of the LSST pipeline sky subtraction on low-surface-brightness flux at different spatial scales

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-11

3.11

Tom Wilson, Tim Naylor, George Beckett, Mike Read

D3.11.2 Demonstration Software for One Example Catalogue

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-12

IRIS DA

Craig Manzi

Evaluation of Trove for IRIS Scientific OpenStack

DELETED

LUSC-B-13

3.5

Raphael Shirley, Manda Banerji

D3.5.1 Prototype SXDS catalogue and first diagnostics performed

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-14

3.7

Aaron Watkins, Chris Collins, Sugata Kaviraj

D3.7.2: Report on Mock Testing Results

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-15

3.9

Dan Weatherill

D3.9.1 Detailed laboratory characterisation of the LSST sensors, enabling sensor responses to be quality controlled, calibrated and modelled

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-16

3.11

Tim Naylor and Tom Wilson

D3.11.3 Demonstration of Full DAC Integrable Software

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-17

3.3

Chris Frohmaier and Mark Sullivan

D3.3.1 LSST/TiDES Metrics Software

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-18

3.3

Chris Frohmaier and Mark Sullivan

D3.3.2 TiDES Cadence Note

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-19

3.7

Aaron Watkins, Chris Collins, Sugata Kaviraj

D3.7.3 Software to Output Metrics That Keep Track of Improvements to the Pipeline Sky Subtraction

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-20

3.11/ 2.5

George Beckett, Tim Naylor, Mike Read, Tom Wilson

WP3.11 DAC-DEV Interface Requirements

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-21

3.11

Tom Wilson

Scaling Relations for WP3.11 Cross-Match Software macauff

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-22

3.5

George Beckett, Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez, Raphael Shirley

WP3.5 DAC-DEV Interface Requirements

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-23

1.4

Graham Smith

D1.4.1 Plan for UK involvement in Commissioning

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-24

2.5

George Beckett, Mike Read

D2.5.5 Interface Requirements for DAC-DEV interactions

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-25

2.2

Mike Read, George Beckett

D2.2.3: Ingestion Software for Ancillary Surveys

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-26

2.4

Stelios Voutsinas, Gareth Francis, George Beckett

D2.4.2: Lessons learned on setup and operation of proto-DAC for Commissioning and Data Preview 0.1 (DP0.1)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-27

3.5

Raphael Shirley, Manda Banerji

First wide area catalogues from joint HSC+VISTA processing

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-28

2.1

George Beckett, Pete Clarke

D2.1.5 Data Facilities Transition Plan

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-29

3.3

Chris Frohmaier, Mark Sullivan

D3.3.3 TiDES Target selection from broker

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-30

1.2

Stephen Smartt

D1.2.3 Science Requirements Document (Mar'22)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-31

2.3

Roy Williams, Gareth Francis, Ken Smith and Dave Young

D2.3.2 Design of infrastructure for LASAIR

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-32

3.2

Dave Young, Roy Williams, Gareth Francis, Ken Smith

D3.2.2 LASAIR user interface

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-33

2.1

Bob Mann, George Beckett

D2.1.4 DAC Roadmap and Integration Plan for DEV Activities (updated)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-34

3.6

Qianjun Hang, Benjamin Joachimi

D3.6.1 Impact of observational effects on LSST photo-z

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-35

2.4

Mike Read

D2.2.5 Design for ingestion of User-generated Products

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-36

2.5

Bob Mann et al

D2.5.2 LSST:UK DAC User Documentation

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-37

3.11

Tom Wilson, Tim Naylor

D3.11.4: Report on the Preparation for Full-Scale DAC Matches

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-38

2.5

George Beckett

D2.5.3: Collection of final reports for mini-projects w/ DEV activities

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-39

3.2

Roy Williams, Gareth Francis, Ken Smith and Dave Young, Stephen Smartt, Andy Lawrence

D3.2.3 Summary documentation for final Lasair system (Mar 2023)

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-40

1.1

Bob Mann

D1.1.3 Long-Term Plan

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-41

3.7

Aaron Watkins, Chris Collins, Sugata Kaviraj

D3.7.4 Prototype LSB-Optimised Sky-Subtraction Package for LSST Software Stack

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-42

2.4

George Beckett

D2.4.3 Infrastructure-requirements forecast for Data Releases during Phases C and D

(Note: this is restricted to LSST:UK project internal staff. Please contact the author for more information or to request access)

PUBLISHED (+ spreadsheet)

 

LUSC-B-43

3.3

Chris Frohmaier, Mark Sullivan

D3.3.4 LSST to 4MOST communication bridge

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-44

3.12

Chris Lintott

D3.12.2 Alert system trial project with broker data

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-45

3.12

Chris Lintott

D3.12.1 Citizen Science system trial

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-46

2.1

George Beckett

D2.1.3: Operational plan for full operation of telescope

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-47

2.4

George Beckett, Amanda Ibsen, Mike Read

D2.4.4 Lessons learned on setup and operation of proto-DAC for Data Preview 0.2

PUBLISHED

LUSC-B-48

3.5

Raphael, Shirley, Manda Banerji

D3.5.3 LSST+VISTA Forced Photometry Module

PUBLISHED

 

Publications

Acknowledgements

  • McBrien, Owen R.; Smartt, Stephen J.; Chen, Ting-Wan; Inserra, Cosimo; Gillanders, James H.; Sim, Stuart A.; Jerkstrand, Anders; Rest, Armin; Valenti, Stefano; Roy, Rupak; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Taubenberger, Stefan; Flörs, Andreas; Huber, Mark E.; Chambers, Ken C.; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Young, David R.; Nicholl, Matt; Kankare, Erkki; Smith, Ken W. Maguire, Kate; Mandel, Ilya; Prentice, Simon; Rodríguez, Ósmar; Pineda Garcia, Jonathan; Gutiérrez, Claudia P.; Galbany, Lluís; Barbarino, Cristina; Clark, Peter S. J.; Sollerman, Jesper; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; De, Kishalay; Buckley, David A. H.; Rau, Arne "SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf ", To appear in ApJ Letters, https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4dae

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