UK involvement in LSST: Phase C (Exeter component)
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
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Organisations
Publications
| Title | Birnam - LSST cross-match catalogue merging. |
| Description | After associating stars by cross-matching between pairs of catalogues, this software takes those pairs of catalogues and merges them into a match of many catalogues, assessing the probability that a single object maybe the source of one detection in each catalogue. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software will be used to produce catalogues which show whether a given LSST source appears in many other catalogues. |
| URL | https://github.com/macauff/birnam |
| Title | Macauff - LSST Cross-matching software |
| Description | macauff, the python package for Matching Across Catalogues using the Astrometric Uncertainty Function and Flux, is a package for cross-matching photometric catalogues. Using the positions, uncertainties, and flux measurements of sources, as well as modelling of the level to which objects are affected by hidden, blended contaminants, macauff provides posterior probabilities of "many-to-many" matches and non-matches between the two catalogues being counterparts to one another. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | This is the software which will be used to match the LSST catalogues to other surveys. |
| URL | https://github.com/lsst-uk/macauff |