gocart 0.1.5

Listen for, collect and convert multimessenger skymaps

gocart

gocart is a python package and command-line suite used to consume GCN Kafka streams..

Documentation for gocart is hosted by Read the Docs (development version and main version). The code lives on github. Please report any issues you find here.

Features

• Listen to GCN Kafka streams (currently LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA only) and write alerts and skymaps to the local filesystem.
• Ability to 'echo' the Kafka stream by re-listening to the last N days of alerts (provided the alerts are still hosted on the GCN Kafka cluster).
• Alert content, FITS Header data and some extra value-added event parameters are written to a single machine-readable YAML file.
• The healpix skymaps are optionally converted to ascii files (one row per healpix pixel) and/or rendered as aitoff plots.