2023 September 13 at 14:00 to 17:00
2023 September 14 to 09:30 to 16:00
Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Accommodation: University rooms website, Booking.com has many options. Area north of Denys Wilkinson toward Summertown is also good area (walk or direct and frequent short bus).
Deadline for registration has now passed and the meeting has reached capacity. A zoom link will be posted here for those who wish to attend remotely.
There will be a dinner Christ Church on the evening of 13th. As you sign up, please add your dietary requirements. If you signed up AFTER 23rd August you must confirm your place at the dinner by sending an email to cigdem.arnison@physics.ox.ac.uk. Those who signed up before are confirmed.
What is this meeting about ?
We have built and released a new version of Lasair, with a new user interface and documentation that continues to work with the ZTF data stream. The alerts from LSST will be quite different in volume, depth, number of filters and alert packet scientific content (e.g forced flux values). In the second half of 2024, we expect to receive and process the first real data alerts from Rubin.
Now is the time to review what we provide and how we can support the community when LSST data stream starts.
We are running a meeting to engage the astronomy community, to demonstrate the capabilities of Lasair, and to discover what scientists want from the alert stream. The meeting will include:
Introduction to Lasair and tutorial, including: reducing millions of alerts to the ones you want; intelligent crossmatch with the big catalogues; making a watchlist of your favourite objects; automating response to interesting alerts; sharing filters, watchlists, and classifiers; annotating the Lasair stream.
Contribute and collaborate by presenting your ideas: share a scientific case study of mining the LSST alert stream and/or run a discussion section on how your science can benefit from the alert stream.
The LSST:UK project is not only about rapid alerts but all aspects of LSST science. Mining our archive of alerts; how we link to the Science Platform; how can the rapid alerts and data releases work together effectively?
We welcome experienced users and new users at meeting and there will be plenty of opportunities for interaction, small group working and discussion and one-to-one help.
The outline timetable is below and we welcome requests or suggestions for topics and sessions. It is currently in development and very flexible.
Will the meeting be hybrid ?
Yes, we will provide a remote connection to the meeting.
First draft of the programme
Will be updated as more register, feedback from attendees welcome to shape the meeting (first draft made 2/Aug/2023)
Wednesday September 13th
Morning to lunchtime : arrival and informal meetings with the Lasair team (Lasair team will be available from morning for any requested discussions).
Morning to Lunch (13:00) | Lasair team available for tutorials, demos, discussions. Location : Astrophysics Data Laboratory, top floor of Tower (Level 7 of DWB) |
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13:00 - 13:50 Lunch (provided)
13:50 - 14:00 | Group Photo | |
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14:00 - 15:30 | Overview of Lasair ZTF and what changes we foresee for Lasair LSST (Chair: TBD) | |
14:00 - 14:15 | Introduction and overview : Rubin project schedule and alerts | Stephen Smartt |
14:15 - 14:45 | Overview of Lasair | Roy Williams |
14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A on Lasair | Roy and Stephen |
15:00 - 15:15 | Catalogue cross-matching and Sherlock (12min + 3 Q&A) | Dave Young |
15:15 - 15:30 | Using the Lasair API (12min + 3 Q&A) | Ken Smith |
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
All 20min talks = 15min talking and 5mins Q&A
16:00 - 17:30 | Science cases - session I (Chair:TBD) | |
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16:00 - 16:20 | Lasair + TiDES | Chris Frohmaier |
16:20 - 16:40 | Lasair and fast transients | Michael Fulton (remote) |
16:40 - 17:00 | Lasair and slow transients | Phil Wiseman |
17:00 - 17:30 | Open Discussion time or additional science cases |
Some suggested topics for discussion time : communication between Lasair and TIDES (transient classification),
Evening - dinner in Christ Church college, in the Freind Room.
Thursday September 14th
All 15min talks should aim for 12min + 3min discussion/change over.
09:15 - 11:00 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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09:15 - 09:30 | Faint transients, outbursts, detection efficiencies | Morgan Fraser |
09:30 - 09:45 | NEEDLE - image classifier | Xinyue Shang |
09:45 - 10:00 | Searches for lensed transients with Lasair | Ana Sainz de Murieta, Mark Magee |
10:00 - 10:15 | LSST and lensing | Suhail Dhawan |
10:15 - 10:30 | Lasair user experience | Dan Ryzcanowski |
10:30 - 10:45 | Lasair user experience | Harry Addison |
10:45 - 11:00 | Links between multimessenger science and LSST | Francesca Onori |
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee
11:20 - 11:50 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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11:20 - 11:35 | Stellar binaries and variables with Lasair | Sarah Casewell |
11:35 - 11:50 | What Lasair can do for solar system and Adler | Meg Schwamb |
11:50 - 12:45 | Breakout group discussions. Break into groups, more detailed discussion about science and user requirements |
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Slow transients | |
Fast transients and GW counterparts | |
Lensed SNe | |
Stars and variability - Lasair and the RSP | |
Others to be decided at meeting |
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45 - 14:45 | Reports from groups |
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14:45 - 15:15 Tea
15:15 - 16:00 | Discussions and user requirements |
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16:00 Finish