Exploring Citizen Science Use Cases with the Lasair transient alert broker

随着8.2米大型综合巡天望远镜（LSST）的首次亮相，天文学将进入拍字节时代。LSST配备了一个覆盖面积为满月40倍的广角摄像机，将有效地拍摄出最大的夜空电影。每隔三个晚上，LSST将对整个可见的夜空进行观测。这使得对宇宙和太阳系瞬变的研究成为可能：变星、移动的太阳系物体、表现出彗星活动的太阳系天体、超新星和其他天体物理爆炸。利用现有的LSST前体数据集，我们将探索如何通过结合公民科学/众包和自动化程序来最大化LSST瞬态科学，以更好地在大海捞针中寻找天文指针。特别是，我们将重点关注Lasair警报流代理概念如何与Zooniverse平台（该平台拥有世界上最大的人力项目集合）相结合，以有效地实时筛选LSST警报流，以识别值得与其他地基和天基望远镜快速跟踪的瞬态源。

Astronomy will enter the petabyte era with the first light of the 8.2-m Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Equipped with a wide-field camera covering an area 40 times the size of the full Moon, LSST will effectively make the largest movie of the night sky. Every three nights LSST will survey the entire visible night sky. This enables an unprecedented study of cosmic and Solar System transients: variable stars, moving Solar System objects, Solar System bodies exhibiting cometary activity, supernovae, and other astrophysical explosions. LSST will identify ten million transient/variable sources per night Using present day LSST precursor datasets, we will explore how we can maximise LSST transient science by combining citizen science/crowd-sourcing and automated routines to better search for the astronomical needle in a haystack. In particular, we will focus on how the Lasair alert stream broker concept can be leveraged with the Zooniverse platform, which hosts the largest collection of people-powered projects in the world, to efficiently and effectively sift through the LSST alert stream in real time to identify transient sources worthy of rapid follow-up with other ground-based and space-based telescopes.