In LSST we have developed AGILE (AGN in the LSST Era), an end-to end simulation software capable of anticipating Rubin-LSST observations. AGILE creates Rubin-LSST images andphotometric catalogs which include Galaxies, AGN and stars. Thanks to AGILE data we can now perform:1) AGN identification (morphology, colour–colour selection, variability) as function of survey progress2) AGN and host characterization (variability parameters, AGN properties, morphology, host-galaxy properties, photometric redshifts)
Together with the software we release a first Data Release (AGILE DR1) which consists of:
1. Truth products for 24deg2
- truth catalog: 24 deg2 truth catalog of AGN, galaxies, and stars centered around the COSMOS field (J2000 10 00 24 +02 10 55)
- SEDs of AGNs, galaxy bulges, and galaxy disks covering the wavelength range from 500 ang to 25 um.
- AGN lightcurves for 10yrs in the LSST bands (ugrizy) •
2. Simulated images for the central 1 deg2 (21 detectors), 1441 visits, and 3 yrs of COSMOS
- single-visit amplifier images from imSim
- single-visit calexp images from the LSST Science pipelines
- Coadded images from the LSST Science pipelines
3. Photometric catalogs for the central 1deg2, 1441 visits, and 3 yrs of COSMOS
- single visit source catalogs
- Co-added object catalogs
- Forced photometry source catalogs
More details can be found in Viitanen A., Bongiorno A., Saccheo I. et al 2026