LSSTC AGN Data Challenge

Jul-21-2022

The data challenge data sets have been made publicly available on Zenodo @ 10.5281/zenodo.6878414

Sep-24-2021

Updated the class label for 849 Gal objects that are also consistent with being a Seyfert or LINER (based on the 'subclass' parameter of their SDSS spectra) to Agn.

Sep-9-2021

The submission deadline has been extended to Oct-15-2021! Stay tuned for the submission procedure.

Aug-31-2021

• Added thumbnails/cutouts (from SDSS DR16) for all objects in the Object table, ~130 objects have no matched thumbnails/cutouts.
• A new example notebook (link) is added to show how to access the pre-generated thumbnails/cutouts.

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This repository hosts information for the LSSTC AGN Data Challenge 2021 (PI: Gordon Richards). A github page is available at here. More (basic) information about this data challenge and the released dataset can be found at About.md.

The dataset released for this data challenge is hosted on SciServer The most up to date version of this dataset is on Zenodo (see above). To participate in this data challenge using the released dataset, please follow the steps listed below:

1. Set up an account on SciServer
2. Fill out this google form and then we will send you an invitation to join the Drexel_LSST group
3. Accept our invitation, see here for an example invitation
4. Get familiar with how to run a container (and correctly mount the shared volume) on SciServer, see here
5. Set up the conda environment following the suggestions provided in the setup folder
6. Explore the getting_started folder, play with the example notebooks and take off from there

If you want to learn more about how this dataset is built, serveral notebooks explaining the data construction are included in the docs folder.

For those that aren't familiar with AGNs (or perhaps even astronomy), please see this DRAFT AGN for Non-Astronomers document.