Lasair Transients and Variables*

Release Notes

2019-12-23 -- Active queries can produce email alerts to the users
2019-12-23 -- Active queries can produce Kafka streams
2019-12-23 -- Queries can now be made active so they run in the night as data comes in
2019-10-28 -- Object table now includes ncandgp, the number of good and positive candidates
2019-10-28 -- Autocomplete now available as part of the query/filter mechanism
2019-10-28 -- Watchlists now available as part of the query/filter mechanism
2019-10-28 -- Watchlists can now have non-uniform radius
2019-08-18 -- Addition of new machine-learning real-bogus classifier
2019-08-18 -- Output streams from active queries
2019-08-18 -- Addition of 6 moving averages of apparent magnitude to detect outburst
August 2019, Matt Nicholl at "Hot-wiring the Transient Universe" Northwestern University, Illinois Talk and Demo session on LASAIR
2019-07-19 -- Addition of computed apparent magnitude to candidate table
June 2019, Andy Lawrence at LSST Community Brokers Workshop, Seattle Lasair presentation
June 2019, Roy Williams and Ken Smith Report on Lasair from LSST:UK phase A
2019-06-10 -- All queries fit with streaming model
April 2019 Ken Smith, at STScI meeting Lasair: The UK: LSST Transient Server
April 2019, Roy Williams at the LSST:UK allhands meeting, Cardiff Lasair: a ZTF broker and prototype LSST broker
2019-02-07 -- Release of beta website
Feb 2019, Ken Smith, at DESC workshop, Berkeley Lasair: a ZTF broker and prototype LSST broker
January 2019, Ken Smith and the Lasair Team, Research Notes of the AAS, 3, 1 Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK
2019-01-26 -- LIGO-Virgo Skymaps
2018-12-20 -- Automated crossmatch with TNS
2018-12-07 -- Comments on objects, searchable
2018-11-19 -- Queries can be stored with a user, made public or not
2018-11-19 -- Cone search now takes a single string
2018-11-10 -- Support for solar system objects
2018-11-10 -- Support for nondetections of objects with magnitude limit
2018-11-10 -- Support for galactic longitude and latitude
2018-11-10 -- Freeform SQL queries on three tables: Objects, Candidates, and Sherlock_crossmatches
2018-09-13 -- First implementation of watchlists
2018-09-13 -- Cone Search
2018-07-13 -- Sortable tables
2018-07-10 -- Added sortable table to object and coverage pages
2018-07-06 -- Added plots for light curves and dartboard plot
2018-06-28 -- Added coverage visualisation
2018-06-27 -- Website running