Tutorials

This page consists of tutorials for people getting started with the LSST project and software.

Getting Setup and Starting

First you need to get a physics department computer account. Talk to someone if you don’t.  Use your physics department account and login (using ‘ssh -Y’) to cosmology-01.phy.duke.edu.

If you don’t know how to use unix at all then I suggest you start by looking at the book “Effective Computation in Physics”.

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There is a copy in the student office and will give you instructions on how to get started. Also, ask other students for help. Make sure you can login, list files in your directory, edit a file etc. When you to do basic operations you are ready to get started. Alternatively, you can find many resources on line to introduce you to Unix.

When you are familiar with basic Unix commands type:

source /var/phy/project/lsst/LSST-Duke.sh

and this will setup the LSST software for you. 

These are the tutorials that all new members should do:

All new group members should do these tutorials and present their results in a set of presentations at the weekly group meetings.

• DS9 and Astropy
• The Leo Triplet
• The Lupton Algorithm

Here are more specialized tutorials for various topics

This collection of more specialized tutorials are for people who need to dive more closely into a particular topic.  

• Understanding the OpSim database: 
  
  1. This is a copy of the LSST DC2 opsim database minion_1016_desc_dithered_v4.db in /var/phy/project/lsst/DC2/OpSim on cosmology-01 .
  2. This Jupyter notebook will show you how to open and explore it.
• Intro notebooks to Python, Pandas, GitHub and Parallel Computing https://github.com/ellongley/Duke-Tutorials (feel free to practice GitHub by making issues and contributing any comments or material you wish!)