What’s the status of the VISTA contributed products, e.g., when available on the RSP?
The UKD-UKD-S5 in-kind contribution, LSST:UK near-infrared data fusion pipeline, is progressing nicely ; both initial prototype datasets, HSC+VISTA (XMM Field) and ComCam+VISTA (CDFS Field), have been produced and are currently being ingested into the UK DAC. These datasets, once fully ingested and validated, will be accessed via the UK IDAC implementation of the RSP. Dr. Elham Saremi is planning a Community post to announce the availability of the datasets as soon as they are live.
Additionally, the in-kind team is preparing to release a revised dataset contribution webpage ahead of the 2026 RCW that will be updated with latest release estimates, and provide information on access to the data once released. We will present this at the RCW and post an announcement on community.