The 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.

This documentation covers version v21_0_0. Learn what’s new. You can also find documentation for other versions.

Getting started

Warning

These tutorials are based on the deprecated Generation 2 command-line task and Butler (lsst.daf.persistence.Butler). New tutorials for Generation 3 pipeline tasks and lsst.daf.butler.Butler are coming soon.

If you’re new to the LSST Science Pipelines, these step-by-step data processing tutorials will get you up and running:

Join us on the LSST Community forum to get help and share ideas.

Installation

Recommended installation path:

Alternative distributions and installation methods:

Related topics:

To install the LSST Simulation software, such as MAF, please follow the LSST Simulations documentation.

Packages

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