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During the next decade, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will obtain high-resolution optical images of the Southern Sky at unprecedented depths. It will detect every night, millions of potential transient objects. I will introduce Fink, a broker developed on high-end technology and designed for fast and efficient analysis of Rubin big data. Fink will receive and process all transients detected by Rubin over 10 years of LSST. It enables the selection of promising transients by providing preliminary classifications and combining information from multiple channels (multi-messenger and multi-wavelength surveys and catalogues). Within minutes, Fink is able to communicate these candidates to teams and follow-up facilities. Fink opens a new way of combining data from LSST and other time-domain surveys and will be key to study the most extreme astrophysical transients in the next decade.
