Lasair VRAs Docs

Caution

It’s early days for LSST and this work so these pages are only in their infancy.

What is this?

Welcome to the Lasair Virtual Research Assistant website. If you are using (or interested in using) the Lasair Virtual Research Assistants LSST filters and want more information, you’re in the right place!

Redirects

1. If you are interested in the Lasair documentation go to the `Lasair Docs <https://lasair.readthedocs.io/en/main/ >`_

2. These are static pages so if you want to raise an issue or ask a question please go to the Lasair VRA github `discussion board <https://github.com/orgs/LasairVRAs/discussions >`_

Table of Contents

For Users

• Introduction
  • What is a “Virtual Research Assistant”?
• r0b: Real Or Bogus
  • How does it work? What data was it trained on? Performance?

For Devs

• Speed Dial
  • Training Check-list
  • testing my template
• Infrastructure
  • Architecture Overview
    • Data
    • Code
  • Useful Definitions
  • Log files and SQLite database
    • Table List
    • Log files
  • Infra Set-up Instructions
    • Directories
    • SQLite database
  • Local dev env
    • conda
    • env variables
• TNS Reporting
  • Setting up TNS reporting of LSST alerts through the TNS API
    • Mandatory fields
    • Important codes to know for LSST
    • at_type
    • archiveid
    • Other Notes
• Local Testing Procedure
  • Making a fresh dirctory
  • Add data to sqlite database