In the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration we are interested in
making high accuracy cosmological measurements of type IA supernovae and
strong gravitational lens time delays with the Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope data. To do this, we need to build a number of software
instruments, and these must be tested and validated against realistic
simulated data. We are using the LSST photon simulator
PhoSim to generate a ten year, 6-filter set of mock images
of a small patch of moderate Galactic latitude sky, containing an
unrealistic overdensity of supernovae and lensed quasars but with
realistic observing conditions and cadence.
Twinkles is an open source research project, and we welcome collaborators. The links below should help you find out more about what we are working on, through our notes and GitHub issues. Our hope is that the Twinkles code and data will be useful for others working on LSST science analysis development. If you'd like to get in touch, please ask us a question in a new issue - we'd love to hear from you.
Find out more:
- Read the Twinkles Weeklies - short summaries of our weekly meetings, with links to various bits of reported progress.
- Check out our most recently updated GitHub issues to see what we're currently working on.