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Fink documentation

  • What is Fink?

    Fink is an astronomical alert broker that serves as an intermediary between alert issuers and the scientific community analyzing the alert data. It provides services designed to assist scientists in efficiently analyzing alert data from telescopes and surveys.

  • What Fink does?

    Among its various functions, Fink collects and stores alert data, enriches it with information from other surveys and catalogs, as well as user-defined enhancements like machine-learning classification scores. It also redistributes the most promising events for further analysis, including follow-up observations.

  • Who is behind Fink?

    There are a lot of contributors! And there are rooms for everybody. You can join using this form, or alternatively contact us at contact(at)fink-broker.org, and we will get in touch with you.

  • How to contribute to Fink?

    We encourage scientific and technological contributions, as we aim for Fink to be a community-driven initiative. Additionally, Fink is entirely open-source, and we welcome contributors! Please be sure to read the guidelines before getting involved.

  • How Fink is different from other brokers?

    Although Fink has many common features with other Rubin Community brokers, it is community-driven, fully open-source and it includes latest big data and machine learning developments.

  • How can I acknowledge the use of Fink?

    Thank you for asking the question! You can cite Möller et al 2021 if you wish, and/or include the following in the acknowledgment section: This work was developed within the Fink community and made use of the Fink community broker resources.