Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB
Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB
Konstantin Malanchev, Melissa DeLucchi, Neven Caplar, Alex I. Malz, Wilson Beebe, Doug Branton, Sandro Campos, Andrew Connolly, Mi Dai, Jeremy Kubica, Olivia Lynn, Rachel Mandelbaum, Sean McGuire, Eric Aubourg, Robert David Blum, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Francisco Delgado, Emmanuel Gangler, Buell T. Jannuzi, Tim Jenness, Yijung Kang, Arun Kannawadi, Marc Moniez, Andrés A. Plazas Malagón, Wouter van Reeven, David Sanmartim, Elana K. Urbach, W. M. Wood-Vasey
AbstractThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently released Data Preview 1 (DP1) in advance of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will enable boundless discoveries in time-domain astronomy over the next ten years. DP1 provides an ideal sandbox for validating innovative data analysis approaches for the LSST mission, whose scale challenges established software infrastructure paradigms. This note presents a pair of such pipelines for variability-finding using powerful software infrastructure suited to LSST data, namely the HATS (Hierarchical Adaptive Tiling Scheme) format and the LSDB framework, developed by the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing (LINCC) Frameworks team. This note presents a pair of variability-finding pipelines built on LSDB, the HATS catalog of DP1 data, and preliminary results of detected variable objects, two of which are novel discoveries.