LSST AGN

The AGILE project

The AGILE Project was developed to anticipate Rubin–LSST observations, with the specific goal of advancing the study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) ahead of survey operations.
Thanks to AGILE data, we can test AGN identification as a function of survey progress and study AGN and host-galaxy characterization.

AGILE which stands for AGN in the LSST Era is an end-to-end simulation software developed by INAF-OAR as part of the Italian in-kind contribution to LSST, in close collaboration with the Rubin-LSST AGN Science. AGILE is designed to simulate Rubin-LSST observations of AGNs, galaxies, and stars: from truth catalogs (mocks of galaxies, AGN and stars) to realistic LSST-like images, and photometric catalogs extracted from the images. AGILE creates DP0-like datasets (see Abolfathi et al., 2021) but tailored specifically to AGN. A first dataset has been created using AGILE (the AGILE first data release DR1, see below) and is provided together with the software.
A description of the AGILE software and its first data release is presented in Viitanen et al. (2026).

Both the AGILE software and the AGILE DR1 dataset are publically available.

AGILE: THE SIMULATION SOFTWARE

THE AGILE FIRST DATA RELEASE (DR1)

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