brunosanchez / alertreport

Automatic reports for astronomical alerts

Alertreport

Automatic reports for astronomical alerts

• Ingests a healpy map in fits format and a galaxy catalog -right now using the White catalog from [http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0695](White et al. 2011)- and performs a series of plots crossmatching the galaxies and producing a latex table of objects to observe.
• After that a makefile is preset to produce a pdf displaying the report of the observable objects.

Workflow

The workflow of tools is changing right now. But is kind of:

• Take a observatoy object (astroplan object) from conf.py and set it as location in earth
• Ingest the HealPy map, and take the relevant part (given our location on earth)
• Cross this map with a catalog of astronomical objects
• Perform likelihhood interpolation for every object
• Sort the results and generate a targets list
• Extract and plot information related to every target relevant for observers (heigth, airmass, char for field recognization)
• Publish this information in pdf in a friendly format.

This is work for PhD @ UNC Cordoba Argentina ...

alertreport's Issues

Observation planning

Check the observavility of each source in the catalog produced.

Lastrly would be great to include in the generated ranking the number of hours above the horizon and peak altitude (and its moment) of each source.