YSE-PZ: A Transient Survey Management Platform that Empowers the Human-in-the-Loop
D. A. Coulter, D. O. Jones, P. McGill, R. J. Foley, P. D. Aleo, M. J., Bustamante-Rosell, D. Chatterjee, K. W. Davis, C. Dickinson, A. Engel, A., Gagliano, W. V. Jacobson-Gal\'an, C. D. Kilpatrick, J. Kutcka, X. K. Le Saux,, Y.-C. Pan, P. J. Qui\~nonez, C. Rojas-Bravo

TL;DR
YSE-PZ is an open-source platform designed to manage and analyze astrophysical transient data efficiently, enhancing human decision-making in follow-up observations amidst rapidly increasing data volumes.
Contribution
It introduces a flexible, human-in-the-loop platform that integrates multiple data streams and supports collaborative transient follow-up decisions.
Findings
Supports multiple simultaneous collaborations with group-level permissions.
Accelerates and enhances human decision-making in transient follow-up.
Provides a flexible deployment option via Docker or cloud hosting.
Abstract
The modern study of astrophysical transients has been transformed by an exponentially growing volume of data. Within the last decade, the transient discovery rate has increased by a factor of ~20, with associated survey data, archival data, and metadata also increasing with the number of discoveries. To manage the data at this increased rate, we require new tools. Here we present YSE-PZ, a transient survey management platform that ingests multiple live streams of transient discovery alerts, identifies the host galaxies of those transients, downloads coincident archival data, and retrieves photometry and spectra from ongoing surveys. YSE-PZ also presents a user with a range of tools to make and support timely and informed transient follow-up decisions. Those subsequent observations enhance transient science and can reveal physics only accessible with rapid follow-up observations. Rather…
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TopicsDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Advanced Data Storage Technologies
