All are welcome to attend the Rubin Science Assemblies: weekly virtual sessions that focus on learning to use the Rubin data products, pipelines, and services.
Date: Oct 8 2026, 9am Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7; 2026-10-08T16:00:00Z)
Type: Demonstration
Host: Dave McKay, Julia Gschwend & Rodrigo Boufleur
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The UK IDAC is hosted by LSST:UK and the IRIS research infrastructure project, through the Somerville Research Cloud funded by the STFC. It is situated in the Advanced Computing Facility datacentre to the south of Edinburgh and jointly managed by EPCC and the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, with support from StackHPC. As the UK IDAC team, we deploy RSP instances through the SQuaRE Phalanx environment on Scientific Openstack and manage peripheral services.
As well as Rubin Data Releases, UK In-kind Contribution outputs are published through the IDAC, including LSST-IR Fusion products, which will reprocess VISTA data releases alongside LSSTCam data through the LSST Data Pipelines, using the obs_vista package, and Macauff Crossmatch data products, providing probabilistic cross-match between Rubin Data Releases and other surveys, such as GAIA and CatWISE. In this talk we provide details of the above and a short overview of our development roadmap.
The Brazilian in-kind team will showcase some science-specific tools, including the PZ Server, the Solar System Portal with the Occultation Prediction Database, and CAnVAS, a brand-new visualization tool customized for navigating galaxy clusters detected by WaZP and exploring their members. CAnVAS is still in an advanced stage of development.