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GRANDMA SkyPortal (ICARE) Coordination Wiki

Welcome to the wiki of SkyPortal/ICARE. It includes coordination, maintenance, and development documentation.

About Skyportal and ICARE

SkyPortal is an open-source astronomical data management platform designed to discover, analyze, and coordinate follow-up observations of time-domain sources.

More details

Skyportal repository on Github : https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal
Skyportal official documentation : https://skyportal.io/
Skyportal youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@skyportalastronomy

On going developments

Release notes : This page gathers all the information related to ICARE updates

The monitoring of all the tasks can be seen here : - on going task refactoring -

Below are described important demands from the project

Programs/Groups Description Demander Person in Charge Skyportal Status Details
General Manage Photometry Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going #26 #28 #24 #31 #14 #38 #46
General Add new features in table for example : T-T0, extinction, plot only validating points Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going #20
General External Report as automatic GCN Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going
General View Rights: GRANDMA/Article tags private, recent source overview does correspond to the group belong to, Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going
General Ergonomy : search bar, management rights on the user, direct access to the sources of your group, shared project, rename of the source Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going #45 #48
GW/LSST Liaison between sources and GCN Multiple C.Douzet Skyportal on going #1
GRB Automatic filtering on the alerts and observational strategy and automated labels Sarah/Marion Skyportal todo
GRB Fitting on LC plots based on afterglow model M. Pillas Skyportal todo
GRB/LSST Notify alerts in slack Sarah Skyportal todo #51
GRB Manage uncertainties and localization update P. Hello Skyportal todo
Follow-up advocate Improvements on the dialogue comments page and management of the person on duty N.Sasaki Skyportal todo
Telescopes Register new Telescopes and default plan, reports of the observations R. Strausbaugh Skyportal todo
LSST Extract reports from Skyportal A. Jacquesson Skyportal first version done #53

Registration & User Management

New comers: how to register to Skyportal/ICARE

You can find the complete procedure on this page : https://grandma-skyportal.readthedocs.io/

There are 3 methods of authentication:
  • Slack for GRANDMA users
  • ORCID for anyone
  • Edugain for anyone

We encourage you to choose ORCID if you are coming from outside GRANDMA colloboration.

  1. Click on "Sign in with IAM"
  2. Choose your preferred method (Slack, ORCID, Edugain)
  3. At this step, you are redirected to a form that will helps to authorize the creation of your account. Account confirmation may take between 24 and 48 hours.
  4. You will receive an email after the account confirmation. You can now access to ICARE
  5. The first page to check is your profile to set your notifications preferences and the Groups page to request access to the groups you are interested in.

User role and rights

You can find the complete list of ACL and description by following this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nb6FQMdNKm00uqXstBHK_FC5JJANi9KMI5faFjKZZuM/edit?tab=t.0

ICARE Specificities

ICARE vs Standard Skyportal
  • IAM authentication (Slack for GRANDMA people, ORCID or Edugain for people inside/outside of GRANDMA)
  • GRANDMA telescopes and time allocations already set in ICARE
  • Extensions like photometry validation

Icare is hosted at Virtual Data in Orsay.
The VM is configured with 32 cores and the database have 100go of space allocated.

How to report a bug / Ask for a feature

Create an issue on Github describing your need or the bug: Send a message :

Do not hesitate to ask questions or share feedback !

Organization

Camille Douzet (IJCLAB contact in slack @Camille DOUZET) is in charge of the production instance of ICARE for GRANDMA. She is the point of contact for any questions related to ICARE. You can contact her by : Skyportal team is divided between the USA and France. The team is composed of :
  • Michael Coughlin (University of Minnesota),
  • Joshua Bloom (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Stéfan van der Walt (Berkeley Institute for Data Science)
  • Théophile Du Laz (Caltech)
  • Antoine Le Calloch (University of Minnesota)
  • Thomas Culino (Caltech)

Skyportal telecon takes place each Thursday at 6:30 pm (CET) : https://umn.zoom.us/j/99017746805?pwd=5OHPm2dc8Fce2DpsyufmzBuivi1tbN.1

More details for the tasks of the group