The LSST Science Pipelines

The LSST Science Pipelines enable optical and near-infrared astronomy in the big data era. We are building the Science Pipelines for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), but our command-line task and Python API can be extended for any optical or near-infrared dataset.

This documentation covers version d_2019_09_18. Learn what’s new. You can also find documentation for other versions.

Getting started

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

• Data processing tutorial series: Part 1 Data repositories · Part 2 Single frame processing · Part 3 Image and catalog display · Part 4 Image coaddition · Part 5 Source measurement · Part 6 Multi-band catalog analysis.

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

Installation

Recommended installation path:

• Installing with newinstall.sh
• Setting up installed LSST Science Pipelines
• Top-level packages to install

Alternative distributions and installation methods:

• Running with Docker
• Installing from source with lsstsw
• CernVM FS (contributed by CC-IN2P3)

Related topics:

• Configuring Git LFS for data packages
• Building a package with the installed Science Pipelines stack

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

Python modules

• lsst.afw.cameraGeom
• lsst.afw.coord
• lsst.afw.detection
• lsst.afw.display
• lsst.afw.fits
• lsst.afw.formatters
• lsst.afw.geom
• lsst.afw.image
• lsst.afw.math
• lsst.afw.table
• lsst.afw.typehandling
• lsst.ap.association
• lsst.ap.pipe
• lsst.ap.verify
• lsst.base
• lsst.coadd.utils
• lsst.daf.butler
• lsst.dax.ppdb
• lsst.display.ds9
• lsst.display.firefly
• lsst.ip.diffim
• lsst.ip.isr
• lsst.jointcal
• lsst.log
• lsst.meas.algorithms
• lsst.meas.astrom
• lsst.meas.base
• lsst.meas.deblender
• lsst.meas.extensions.psfex
• lsst.meas.extensions.shapeHSM
• lsst.meas.extensions.simpleShape
• lsst.meas.modelfit
• lsst.obs.base
• lsst.obs.cfht
• lsst.obs.decam
• lsst.obs.lsst
• lsst.obs.lsstSim
• lsst.obs.test
• lsst.pex.config
• lsst.pex.exceptions
• lsst.pipe.base
• lsst.pipe.drivers
• lsst.pipe.tasks
• lsst.sconsUtils
• lsst.shapelet
• lsst.skymap
• lsst.utils
• lsst.validate.drp
• lsst.verify
• lsstDebug

Additional C++ API reference documentation is currently available at the doxygen.lsst.codes site.

Packages

• verify_metrics

Release details

• Release Notes
• Known Issues
• Characterization Metric Reports

Indices

• Tasks
• Index
• Search

More info

• Join us on the LSST Community forum, community.lsst.org.
• Fork our code on GitHub at https://github.com/lsst.
• Report issues in JIRA.
• Some API documentation, particularly for C++, is currently published separately on a Doxygen site.
• DM Developer guidance is at https://developer.lsst.io.
• Learn more about LSST Data Management by visiting http://lsst.org/about/dm.
• Contribute to our documentation. This guide is on GitHub at lsst/pipelines_lsst_io.