Below you will find information of the pixel data products that will be produced by the LSST software stack. As well, you will find information on the potential added value user-generared products the SSSC is planning as well as the data products to be provided by the LSST project calculated via the LSST stack.
The goal is to provide products to the community that enable science in four guiding science themes; making a census of the Solar System is one of the four. LSST project therefore design products that are:
A short overview of LSST Solar System data products can be found here . The Data Products Definition Document (DPDD) defines what the nightly and yearly catalogs will contain. You can find a handy outline of the proposed database schema for the LSST SSObject table here . More information on the Rubin Observatory's Solar System Data Processing can be found here .
Image Credit: Rubin Observatory Data Management/Mario Jurić
Image Credit: Rubin Observatory Data Management/Mario Jurić
Image Credit: Rubin Observatory Data Management/Mario Jurić
Image Credit: Rubin Observatory Data Management/Mario Jurić
Prompt data products produced on nightly or shorter timescales which will consist of basic images, source catalogs, transient identifications, moving object identifications, and event alerts.
Data Release annual data release products including refinements to calibrations and photometry, calibration images, image co-adds and catalogs.
User Generated/Added Value are user-generated added value products.
Exactly what parameters will be automatically provided within Prompt and Data Release products are still being discussed. You can learn more about the current status on planned Solar System Data Products from LSST in this recorded presentation by Mario Jurić. More information on all LSST data products can be found here.
Annual release will have all LSST observations run through one version of the LSST data pipelines. The version of software run on the nightly observations can change, and old observations won't be rerun through the updated pipelines until the annual release.
Image Credit: Rubin Observatory Data Management
Additional information on LSST data processing pipelines and data products can be found on the LSST Information for Scientists page.
After an LSST image is taken, the image subtraction pipeline will identify transient sources (stuff that moves or varies in brightness). These Difference Image Analysis Sources (DIASources) will be sent out in the public LSST Alert Stream within 60s of the observation's end.
Image Credit: LSST Data Management/Leanne Guy
Image Credit: LSST Data Management/Leanne Guy
Image Credit: LSST Data Management/Leanne Guy
Image Credit: LSST Data Management/Leanne Guy
More about the alert stream can be found in this talk by Eric Bellm, this talk by Leanne Guy at the 2018 LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint, and the LSST Data Management Science Pipelines Design Document .
An overview of Plans and Policies for LSST Alert Distribution can be found here .
More information of proposed SSSC user-generated data products and software can be found in our software roadmap , published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.