UK involvement in LSST: Phase C (Southampton component)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
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| Description | Rubin-Euclid Joint Image Processing (STFC Urgency Call) |
| Amount | £114,175 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/Y005473/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2024 |
| End | 06/2025 |
| Title | Adaptation of Rubin software stack to process VISTA pixel data |
| Description | We are adapting the LSST Rubin software stack to process pixel data generated by other astronomical surveys e.g. the ESO VISTA Public Surveys |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The algorithm makes the Rubin software stack more flexible and enables it to jointly process astronomical imaging data collected using different cameras and telescopes. |
| URL | https://github.com/lsst-uk/obs_vista |
| Description | VISTA |
| Organisation | VISTA |
| PI Contribution | I am a member of several public surveys being undertaken with the ESO VISTA telescope including the VISTA Hemisphere Survey, VIKING and VIDEO. I lead the new VISTA VEILS survey recently approved as an ESO VISTA Public Survey starting in 2017. I am also a member of the VISTA-4MOST project due to begin scientific operations in the 2020s and am on the Infrastructure Coordination Board for that project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As a member of these surveys, myself and my students get early access to proprietary data from the surveys for my research purposes. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| Organisation | Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) |
| Department | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are delivering an in-kind software development and dataset contribution to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project - namely a pipeline to combine LSST data with near infrared data from the VISTA telescope. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The LSST AGN and Galaxies Science Collaborations are providing scientific input on the LSST-VISTA data products and NOIRLab are recipients of the resulting dataset. |
| Impact | LSST-VISTA Data Fusion Pipeline HSC-VISTA Dataset Contribution |
| Start Year | 2020 |