Portal aspect

The Portal aspect enables interactive scientific data discovery and visualization in a web browser. It is based on the Firefly tool developed for optical and infrared data analysis at IPAC.

Most RSP users will find the Portal aspect to be the most efficient way to browse, display, and make simple plots with the LSST data sets.

The Portal aspect’s functionality can be used to access LSST data without writing code or using programming languages.

Conceptual overview

The Portal aspect offers a variety of functionality, including:

• browsable all-sky maps of the LSST deeply coadded images

• a graphical user interface for data queries

• an ADQL interface for data queries

• data access via the Table Access Protocol (TAP) service

• an interactive query results interface to:

  • filter and manipulate tabular data

  • display and inspect sky images with Firefly

  • create and customize plots

• user-uploaded tables

• data download options

User guide

• Start and stop a session
• Using the Portal
  • Portal tutorials

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