The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment

@misc{alsayyad2026lsst,
  title = {{The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment}},
  author = {Yusra Alsayyad and Robert Armstrong and Tim S Axelrod and John Banovetz and Keith Bechtol and Eric C Bellm and Pedro H Bernardinelli and James F Bosch and Andrew Bradshaw and Alexander Broughton and Audrey Budlong and Neven Caplar and Jeffrey L Carlin and Ross Ceballo and Colin Orion Chandler and Hsin-Fang Chiang and James Chiang and Yumi Choi and Johann Cohen-Tanugi and Andrew J Connolly and Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne and Gregory P Dubois-Felsmann and Frossie Economou and Orion Eiger and Agnès Ferté and Krzysztof Findeisen and Merlin Fisher-Levine and Michelle Gower and Leanne P Guy and Fabio Hernandez and Kenneth Herner and Joshua Hoblitt and Erin Leigh Howard and Minhee Hyun and David H Irving and Željko Ivezić and Tim Jenness and Mario Jurić and Arun Kannawadi and Lee S Kelvin and K. Simon Krughoff and Jacob A Kurlander and Pierre-François Léget and Kian-Tat Lim and Robert H Lupton and Nate B Lust and Lauren A Macarthur and Sean Patrick Macbride and Jeremy Mccormick and Guillem Megias Homar and Joshua E Meyers and Joachim Moeyens and Fred E Moolekamp and James R Mullaney and Erfan Nourbakhsh and William O'Mullane and John K Parejko and Hye Yun Park and Maria T Patterson and Stephen R Pietrowicz},
  howpublished = {HAL},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.22613},
  eprint = {2610.22613},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-05842472v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment
AU  - Yusra Alsayyad
AU  - Robert Armstrong
AU  - Tim S Axelrod
AU  - John Banovetz
AU  - Keith Bechtol
AU  - Eric C Bellm
AU  - Pedro H Bernardinelli
AU  - James F Bosch
AU  - Andrew Bradshaw
AU  - Alexander Broughton
AU  - Audrey Budlong
AU  - Neven Caplar
AU  - Jeffrey L Carlin
AU  - Ross Ceballo
AU  - Colin Orion Chandler
AU  - Hsin-Fang Chiang
AU  - James Chiang
AU  - Yumi Choi
AU  - Johann Cohen-Tanugi
AU  - Andrew J Connolly
AU  - Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne
AU  - Gregory P Dubois-Felsmann
AU  - Frossie Economou
AU  - Orion Eiger
AU  - Agnès Ferté
AU  - Krzysztof Findeisen
AU  - Merlin Fisher-Levine
AU  - Michelle Gower
AU  - Leanne P Guy
AU  - Fabio Hernandez
AU  - Kenneth Herner
AU  - Joshua Hoblitt
AU  - Erin Leigh Howard
AU  - Minhee Hyun
AU  - David H Irving
AU  - Željko Ivezić
AU  - Tim Jenness
AU  - Mario Jurić
AU  - Arun Kannawadi
AU  - Lee S Kelvin
AU  - K. Simon Krughoff
AU  - Jacob A Kurlander
AU  - Pierre-François Léget
AU  - Kian-Tat Lim
AU  - Robert H Lupton
AU  - Nate B Lust
AU  - Lauren A Macarthur
AU  - Sean Patrick Macbride
AU  - Jeremy Mccormick
AU  - Guillem Megias Homar
AU  - Joshua E Meyers
AU  - Joachim Moeyens
AU  - Fred E Moolekamp
AU  - James R Mullaney
AU  - Erfan Nourbakhsh
AU  - William O'Mullane
AU  - John K Parejko
AU  - Hye Yun Park
AU  - Maria T Patterson
AU  - Stephen R Pietrowicz
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/15
PB  - HAL
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.22613
UR  - https://hal.science/hal-05842472v1
AB  - The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is executing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as its prime mission, producing a series of data releases over the ten-year survey. The LSST Science Pipelines Software will be used to create these data releases and to perform the nightly prompt processing and alert production. This paper provides an overview of the LSST Science Pipelines Software, describing the components and their integration into pipelines that generate science-ready data products. We do not provide detailed descriptions of individual algorithms, but instead aim to show how the pipeline software is constructed and the breadth of the system. Similarly, we do not provide details of specific data products and the associated file formats.
ER  -