lasair

Documentation for the Lasair Transient Science Platform

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  • Quick Start
  • Videos
  • Lasair Cookbook

About Lasair

  • About Lasair
  • How is Lasair Different?
  • The Lasair approach
  • How Lasair Works
  • Scientific goals of Lasair

Lasair Concepts

  • Lasair Concepts

Core Functions

  • Sky Search
  • Sherlock (Sky Context)
  • Make a Lasair Filter
  • Lasair’s Lightcurve Features
  • Watchlists
  • Watchmaps (Sky Regions)
  • Multimessenger Counterparts
  • Lasair API Client
  • Curl and Get
  • Python Notebooks
  • Alert Streams
  • Making an Annotator

More Information

  • Porting from Lasair-ZTF
  • Lasair account
  • Questions and Answers
  • Support/Blog/Contact
  • Lasair Ingestion Status
  • Acknowledgements
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Sky Search ∞

At the top of every Lasair page is a form that can be filled in to do various kinds of search. The following are supported:

  • Search by RA and Dec decimal degrees, delimited by space or comma:

308.590715 9.278195
308.590715, 9.278195
  • Search by RA and Dec sexagesimal coordinates, delimited by space or comma:

20:34:21.7  09:16:41.5
20:34:21.7, 09:16:41.5
  • Adding a search radius in arcseconds to any of the previous, for example:

308.590715 9.278195 60
  • Search by diaObject identifier, for example 3068394045085582376

  • Search by TNS identifier, for example AT2020iry or SN2020iry or 2020iry.

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