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Data Preview 2

Data Preview 2 contains image and catalog products from Rubin Science Pipelines v30 processing of observations obtained with the LSST Camera between April 2025 and January 2026.

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lsst/dp2_lsst_io

LSST Science Pipelines

The LSST Science Pipelines are designed to enable optical and near-infrared astronomy in the “big data” era. While they are being developed to process the data for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin’s LSST), our command line and programming interfaces can be extended to address any optical or near-infrared dataset.

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lsst/pipelines_lsst_io

Prompt Products

Prompt Products include the alerts, catalogs, and images generated by real-time Rubin Science Pipelines processing of observations obtained with the LSST Camera.

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lsst/prompt-products_lsst_io

Rubin Science Platform

The Rubin Science Platform is an online service that enables you to access and analyze Rubin LSST data. This documentation will help you set up your user account and work with the Rubin Science Platform’s software and services.

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lsst/rsp_lsst_io

lsst.images

A Python library providing the data structures used to represent Rubin image data products, bundling image arrays, masks, and variance data with metadata such as point-spread function models.

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lsst/images

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a Federal project jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, with early construction funding received from private donations through the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded LSST (now Rubin Observatory) Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under the management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).

NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF's NOIRLab and SLAC.

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