Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)

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

• LSST Data Products Definition Document

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.