breaker 1.0

Tools used by the PanSTARRS & ATLAS teams when surveying the likely sky-locations of LIGO-VIRGO discovered Gravitational Waves

Tools used by the PanSTARRS & ATLAS teams when surveying the likely sky-locations of LIGO-VIRGO discovered Gravitational Waves.

Usage

breaker update [-n] [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker plot (timeline|history|sources) [-w <gwid>] [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker plot comparison <gwid> <pathToMapDirectory> [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker faker <ps1ExpId> [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker stats <gwid> [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker listen <far> (<mjdStart> <mjdEnd> | <inLastNMins>) [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]
breaker listen -d <far> [-s <pathToSettingsFile>]

COMMANDS
--------
update                update the PS1 footprint table in breaker database and associate with GW-IDs. Optionally download overlapping NED source and also add to the database.
plot                  enter plotting mode
timeline              plot from the epoch of the wave detection forward in time
history               plot from now back in time over the last days, weeks and months
comparison            produce a multi-panel plot to compare wave maps
stats                 generate some coverage stats for a given wave survey campaign
sources               overplot map with NED sources found within the wave campaign footprint
faker                 generate a catalogue of simulated transient sources in PS1 exposure ID footprint
listen                connect to grace DB and download maps found within the given time range

ARGUMENTS
---------
far                   false alarm rate limit in Hz (1e-7 Hz ~= 3.2 per year)
gwid                  the gravitational wave ID
pathToSettingsFile    path to the yaml settings file
pathToMapDirectory    path to a directory containing localisation maps
ps1ExpId              a panstarrs exposure ID
mjdStart              start of an MJD range
mjdEnd                end of the MJD range
inLastNMins           in the last N number of minutes

FLAGS
-----
-h, --help            show this help message
-s, --settings        the settings file
-n, --updateNed       update the NED database steam
-d, --daemon          listen in daemon mode
-w, --waveId          a gravitational wave ID

Documentation

Documentation for breaker is hosted by Read the Docs (last stable version and latest version).

Installation

The easiest way to install breaker us to use pip:

pip install breaker

Or you can clone the github repo and install from a local version of the code:

git clone [e-mail]:thespacedoctor/breaker.git
cd breaker
python setup.py install

To upgrade to the latest version of breaker use the command:

pip install breaker --upgrade

Troubleshooting

If you’re having trouble with the installation here are a few things to try:

Astropy and Clang. On Mac OS you may have to set your C-compiler to clang before astropy will install. So before the breaker installation, try:

setenv CC clang

or, for bash:

export CC=clang

Then try and install breaker again.

healpy. If you’re having trouble installing healpy try installing the latest version from github. Download and extract the tarball.

Untar, set your MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable and install:

tar -xvf healpy-1.9.0.tar.gz
cd healpy-1.9.0
setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 10.11
python setup.py install

Development

If you want to tinker with the code, then install in development mode. This means you can modify the code from your cloned repo:

git clone [e-mail]:thespacedoctor/breaker.git
cd breaker
python setup.py develop

Pull requests are welcomed!

Issues

Please report any issues here.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 David Young

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.