The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is executing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as its prime mission, producing a series of data releases over the ten-year survey. The LSST Science Pipelines Software will be used to create these data releases and to perform the nightly prompt processing and alert production. This paper provides an overview of the LSST Science Pipelines Software, describing the components and their integration into pipelines that generate science-ready data products. We do not provide detailed descriptions of individual algorithms, but instead aim to show how the pipeline software is constructed and the breadth of the system. Similarly, we do not provide details of specific data products and the associated file formats.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Developers, Rubin Observatory Science Pipelines, AlSayyad, Yusra, Armstrong, Robert, Axelrod, Tim S., Banovetz, John, Bechtol, Keith, Bellm, Eric C., Bernardinelli, Pedro H., Bosch, James F., Bradshaw, Andrew, Broughton, Alexander, Budlong, Audrey, Caplar, Neven, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Ceballo, Ross, Chandler, Colin Orion, Chiang, Hsin-Fang, Chiang, James, Choi, Yumi, Cohen-Tanugi, Johann, Connolly, Andrew J., Dagoret-Campagne, Sylvie, Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory P., Economou, Frossie, Eiger, Orion, Ferté, Agnès, Findeisen, Krzysztof, Fisher-Levine, Merlin, Gower, Michelle, Guy, Leanne P., Hernandez, Fabio, Herner, Kenneth, Hoblitt, Joshua, Howard, Erin Leigh, Hyun, Minhee, Irving, David H., Ivezić, Željko, Jenness, Tim, Jurić, Mario, Kannawadi, Arun, Kelvin, Lee S., Krughoff, K. Simon, Kurlander, Jacob A., Léget, Pierre-François, Lim, Kian-Tat, Lupton, Robert H., Lust, Nate B., MacArthur, Lauren A., MacBride, Sean Patrick, McCormick, Jeremy, Homar, Guillem Megias, Meyers, Joshua E., Moeyens, Joachim, Moolekamp, Fred E., Mullaney, James R., Nourbakhsh, Erfan, O'Mullane, William, Parejko, John K., Park, Hye Yun, Patterson, Maria T., Pietrowicz, Stephen R., Malagón, Andrés A. Plazas, Price, Paul A., Ranabhat, Arianna, Rawls, Meredith L., Reed, Sophie L., Rykoff, Eli S., Salnikov, Andrei, Sánchez, Bruno O., Saunders, Clare, Sedaghat, Nima, Sick, Jonathan, Slater, Colin T., Smart, Brianna M., Snyder, Adam, Sullivan, Ian S., Swinbank, John D., Taranu, Dan S., Thornton, Adam J., Yuankun, Wang, Waters, Christopher Z., Williams, Christina C., Wittgen, Matthias, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Zhang, Tianqing
Institutions: NSF NOIRLab, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Princeton University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Arizona, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Washington, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Northern Arizona University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont Auvergne, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, California Institute of Technology, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Centre de Calcul de l’Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Duke University, University of Zurich, University of Sheffield, Australian Astronomical Optics, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre de physique des particules de Marseille, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab): Management and Operations of Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Construction of Vera C. Rubin Observatory under the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Account, Final Design, Construction and Operations of Vera C. Rubin Observatory, G2371548206, G262532246, G303061748, G4235786860, G4654690619, NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), G5570207115
OpenAlex ID: W7222917947