Date: Thu Feb 12 2025, 9:00-10:00am PST
Type: tutorial
Host: Melissa Graham
Zoom: Rubin Science Assemblies Zoom link request form
Presenter: The Babmul broker team
Title: The Babamul Broker
Website: babamul.caltech.edu
Babamul transforms the massive and heterogenous LSST data stream into smaller, focused channels organized by astronomical event properties (e.g. fast, blue, ...). Each channel delivers lightweight, science-ready alerts enriched with context from real-time surveys including ZTF. By dramatically reducing the data volume and splitting the stream in its different parts, you can subscribe only to events relevant to your research and filter them further using minimal hardware and familiar tools (e.g. astropy, numpy, astroquery) while also allowing for fast and local ML-based workflows. To lower the barrier of entry and jump-start projects, we also provide a number of open-sourced modules, ML models, example pipelines, and data management systems (with candidate vetting and follow-up UIs) inheriting from 7+ years of experience discovering transients in the ZTF alert stream.
Learn more about alerts and brokers.
About Rubin Science Assemblies: Weekly virtual sessions that focus on learning to use the Rubin data products, pipelines, and services. Weeks alternate between hands-on tutorials (or presentations) and drop-in office hour. Assemblies are run by Rubin staff. All are welcome to attend and students are particularly encouraged.