Information about the templates in the alert packet

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#1

Hello,

If I look at the latest alert schema

I do not find any information regarding the templates used to construct the alert. For ZTF, there was for example a number of fields that turned out to be useful in many occasions to inspect e.g. weird behaviors in lightcurves due to e.g. a change of templates :

jdstartref: Observation Julian date of latest exposure used to generate reference image [days]
jdendref: Observation Julian date of earliest exposure used to generate reference image [days]
nframesref: Number of frames (epochal images) used to generate reference image

Is it something that could be also added for Rubin?

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#2

It’s a useful suggestion, @JulienPeloton. It will I think require some pipelines infrastructure work–we’ll investigate.

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