.. _survey lsst:

Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
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Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time is an upcoming wide-field, optical survey that will scan the entire
visible southern sky every few days for a decade in six bands: u, g, r, i, z, and y. It will produce an alert stream of
astronomical transients detected by difference imaging at an expected average rate of 10^7 alerts per night.

Mission resources:

- `LSST Homepage <https://rubinobservatory.org>`__
- `LSST Data Products Definition Document <https://lse-163.lsst.io/v/v3.9/index.html>`__

Data products:

- Alert Stream. The schema can be viewed at `<https://github.com/lsst/alert_packet/tree/main/python/lsst/alert/packet/schema>`__.
  Complete documentation can be found at the mission resources above.