GW (LIGO) utilities
Project description
gkligo
Code to download GW Alert skymaps from Kafka, and optionally write them out and/or convert them to MOC files at specified contours.
The code is based on code written by Roy Williams and Leo Singer.
It requires the following python packages:
- gcn-kafka
- healpy
- gkutils
- docopt
- pyYAML
- numpy
- ligo.skymap
- astropy
- mocpy
The command line utilities are:
- downloadGWAlert (Download the alert from Kafka)
The config_example.yaml file is an example config file. Copy it and rename to config.yaml. Get your credentials by following the first part of the Kafka Notices via GCN tutorial. Leave the topics configuration unchanged.
TO DO:
- Convert into a Daemon
- Create a log file
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