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Rubin Science Platform documentation

Find documentation for Rubin Observatory data, science platform services, and software.

Platform and software documentation

Phalanx

The configuration repository for Rubin's Kubernetes deployments.

Rubin Science Platform

The Notebook aspect is a powerful data analysis environment with Jupyter Notebooks and terminals in the browser. Documentation for the Rubin Science Platform, including account set up, portal, notebooks, and API aspects.

Portal

The Portal enables you to explore LSST image and table data in your browser.

LSST Science Pipelines

The Science Pipelines include the Butler for accessing LSST data and a pipeline framework for processing data. The LSST Science Pipelines Python package is preinstalled in the Notebook aspect.

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Rubin Observatory is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Its primary mission is to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, providing an unprecedented data set for scientific research supported by both agencies. Rubin is operated jointly by NSF’s NOIRLab and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). NOIRLab is managed for NSF by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and SLAC is operated for DOE by Stanford University.

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