Planet 9 Repo

All of Thacher Astronomy's tools for searching for planet 9 are in this repository.

Tasks

• Write up documentation
  • gridder.py
  • make_stacked_image.py
  • make_test_ims.py
  • pandastarrs.py
  • planet9_movement.py
  • planet9_reduction.py
  • planet9_sim.py
  • seeker.py
  • trylegal.py
• automate film generation
• automate planet9 recovery
  • integrate background subtraction

Index

• gridder.py
• make_stacked_image.py
• make_test_ims.py
• pandastarrs.py
• planet9_movement.py
• planet9_reduction.py
• planet9_reduction_ko.py
• planet9_sim.py
• seeker.py
• trylegal.py

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gridder.py

description here

make_stacked_image.py

description here

make_test_ims.py

description here

pandastarrs.py

Apparatus for extracting information from tables of PanSTARRS data.

Functions	Arguments	Returns	Notes
load_info		PANDAS dataframe	read PanSTARRS data into memory (defaults to ./data/PanSTARRS.table)
info_col	string column	PANDAS dataframe	extracts only a particular column and its data from the PanSTARRS datatable
info_len		len of data table	used to calculate the total number of entries in the PanSTARRS datafile

planet9_movement.py

description here

planet9_reduction.py

Nick Edwards:

it takes p9 images and subtracts the background and hcongrid stuff

planet9_sim.py

Nick Edwards:

it simulates p9 fields and makes movies

seeker.py

Nick Edwards:

seeker.py is for automatically finding planet 9 and is unfinished

trylegal.py

Apparatus for extracting information from tables of TRILEGAL data.