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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF NOIRLab and SLAC.

NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.

The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

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Data products, pipelines, and services

All of the LSST data are processed, calibrated, and made available as science-ready images, catalogs and alerts. Scientists access these data products via the Rubin Science Platform, Independent Data Access Centers (IDACs), and alert brokers, which also offer next-to-the-data analysis tools and computational resources.

The capability to download, reduce, or calibrate data is not needed to do science with the LSST.

Data access and analysis

Tools to query, visualize, and analyze the science-ready data products, and computational resources for custom processing, are available. Get started here!

Learn how to access and analyze data.

Data releases

A limited set of LSST-like simulated data are available now.

Learn more about data releases.

Alerts and brokers

During the night, alerts containing data for time-variable sources are streamed to brokers.

Learn how to use alerts and brokers.

Data processing pipelines

All LSST images are processed with the LSST Science Pipelines.

Learn more about the data processing pipelines.

Future data products

Science-ready data products include calibrated images and catalogs of detected sources.

Learn more about the future data products.

Data policy

Some data products and services are proprietary to scientists and students at US or Chilean institutes and members of international teams.

Learn more about the data policy.