- Sponsor
- LSST Discovery Alliance, SkAI, Center for AstroPhysical Surveys, Rubin Observatory, National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation
- Contact
- Gautham Narayan
- gsn@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Center for AstroPhysical Surveys
The Rubin Alert Stream
Preparing the community to harness the most powerful time-domain survey ever built
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will scan the entire southern sky every few nights, generating roughly 10 million difference-image alerts every single night of operations. Each alert carries photometry, cutout images, and contextual metadata for a transient, variable, or moving object. No human can review this flood of data — AI and machine learning are not optional. They are essential infrastructure for doing science with Rubin.
The NSF-Simons SkAI Institute is committed to serving as a community hub, bringing together astrophysicists and AI experts to tackle exactly this challenge. This hackathon, supported by the LSST Discovery Alliance, is a focused effort to develop the tools, models, and pipelines needed to enable early science with the Rubin alert stream — and to build the collaborative community that will carry that work forward into the LSST era.
We look forward to welcoming you to Chicago and the SkAI Institute for three days of focused, hands-on work at the frontier of AI-enabled astrophysics.