Skoal 0.407

a kilonova followup scheduling package for fermi and lvc notices

SKOAL (scheduling kilonovae algebraic lightweight)

A lightweight, comprehensive scheduling package built for ultrafast follow-up observations of FERMI notices and LVC notices. I originally built this for the TURBO project so it's optimized for an array of telescope mounts requiring subsecond scheduling times.

PACKAGING IN PROGRESS, email [e-mail] for questions

The code can currently:

• interact with gracedb to download and read skymaps
• read and produce telescope configuration files
• create an moc tiling for square and nonsquare telescope footprints of arbitrary dimensions
• produce probability ordered target list of observable targets for given FERMI and LVC notices
• divide target list based on clusters or probability for arbitrarily sized telescope array

Planned improvements:

• add other tiling methods(Shaon's method)
• coordination between multiple telescope arrays
• add option to use balltree and compare method times
• implement algebraic option for fermi notices

Related repositories:

• https://github.com/shaonghosh/sky_tiling.git
• https://github.com/mcoughlin/gwemopt