#Maf lsst astrometry full#
#Maf lsst astrometry plus#
#Maf lsst astrometry simulator#

#Maf lsst astrometry plus#

The most obvious examples are examining pointing histories of other survey projects or telescopes, such as CFHT.2G - Second-generation mobile (cellular, wireless) telephone systemģG - Third-generation mobile telephone systemģi - Investors In Industry (venture capitalists)ģM - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyĤD - Four-Dimensional (usually three spatial plus one temporal dimension, sometimes four spatial ones)ĤG - Fourth-generation mobile telephone systemĤGL - Fourth-generation programming languageĪ4 - many, including a European standard office paper size see entryĪA- achieved availability,Alcoholics Anonymous, Armed Forces Americas (postal symbol),Aruba (FIPS 10-4 territory code), assembly area,Automobile Association,avenue of approachĪAA- administration, authorization, and authentication,American Automobile Association ('Triple-A'),anti-aircraft artillery,Amateur Athletic Association (of England),Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (Spanish, 'Assistance, Consulting, and Administration'-Mexican professional wrestling promotion)ĪAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, formerly American Association for Artificial IntelligenceĪAAS - American Association for the Advancement of ScienceĪAAV - Advanced Amphibious Assault VehicleĪAC- American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)ĪAD- analogue-analogue-digital (CD quality),Australian Antarctic DivisionĪADAC - Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse CommissionĪADC- area air defense commander, amino acid decarboxylase, aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, Australian Antarctic Data CentreĪAFC- U.S. Some of these new metrics are illustrated in the accompanying poster, 'Analyzing Simulated LSST Survey Performance With MAF'.While MAF has been developed primarily for application to OpSim outputs, it can be applied to any dataset.

A user can often write a new metric to evaluate OpSim for new science goals in less than a day once they are familiar with the framework.

#Maf lsst astrometry full#

The output of these metrics can be generated for a full survey, for specified time intervals, or for regions of the sky, and can be easily visualized using a web interface.An important goal for MAF is to facilitate analysis of the OpSim outputs for a wide variety of science cases. An example simple metric could be the mean single visit limiting magnitude for each position in the sky a more complex metric might be the expected astrometric precision. airmass or sky brightness) and a calculation of how well these observations meet a specified science objective (or metric). We have created a Metric Analysis Framework (MAF), an open-source python framework, to be a user-friendly, customizable and easily extensible tool to help analyze the outputs of the OpSim.MAF reads the pointing history of the LSST generated by the OpSim, then enables the subdivision of these pointings based on position on the sky (RA/Dec, etc.) or the characteristics of the observations (e.g. Analyzing the results of these simulated surveys for the wide variety of science cases to be considered for LSST is, however, difficult.

#Maf lsst astrometry simulator#

To address this, LSST has created an Operations Simulator (OpSim) to create simulated surveys, including realistic weather and sky conditions.

Studying potential observing strategies or cadences for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a complicated but important problem.