Automated and reproducible target selection for large collaborations
Project description
sort-a-survey:
hands-off target selection for large astronomical surveys
Features
Can't converge on a final target list? Do multiple science goals have you tripped up? Are you having a hard time balancing several programs within a set allocation? Have several nights of observing coming up?
Let sortasurvey
do the heavy lifting for you.
Imagine a survey sample that can be:
- Automated
- takes what would be an otherwise-complicated process and make it totally hands-off
- Optimized
- can be ran many times with many different scenarios to create a sample that best fits your survey needs
- Reproduced
- the randomized selection process and sample can be easily reproduced with our random seed feature
- Tested
- Monte-carlo-like simulation capabilities to test how robust your survey sample is
- Visualized
- creates helpful summary tables and stats
Installation
Install sortasurvey
using pip:
$ pip install sortasurvey
The survey
binary should have been automatically placed in your system's path by the
command. If your system can not find the survey
executable, cd
into the
top-level sortasurvey
directory and try running the following command:
$ python setup.py install
You may test your installation by using survey --help
to see available command-line options:
$ survey --help
usage: sort-a-survey [-h] [-version] {setup,rank} ...
sort-a-survey: automated, optimizable and reproducible target selection
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-version, --version Print version number and exit.
subcommands:
{setup,rank}
setup Easy setup for directories and files
rank Rank targets for a given survey
Tutorial
Follow example in
sort-a-survey/examples/TKS.ipynb
The work presented here was motivated by the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS), a large, dedicated radial velocity program using over 100 nights on Keck/HIRES to study transiting planets identified by the NASA TESS mission. TKS is a collaboration between researchers at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, the University of Hawai'i, the University of Kansas, NASA, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and the W. M. Keck Observatory. Please visit this repo for more specific details on the application of this algorithm to the final TKS sample.
Attribution
Written by Ashley Chontos, with contributions from BJ Fulton, Erik Petigura, Joey Murphy, Ryan Rubenzahl, Sarah Blunt, Corey Beard, Tara Fetherolf, and Judah van Zandt.
Please cite the [TKS paper] if you make use of this software or the TKS sample in your work.
Acknowledgements
We recognize and acknowledge the cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are deeply grateful to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
We thank all the observers who have spent time collecting data over the many years on Keck/HIRES. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and dedication of the Keck Observatory staff for support of HIRES and remote observing. We thank Ken and Gloria Levy, who supported the construction of the Levy Spectrometer on the Automated Planet Finder. We thank the University of California and Google for supporting Lick Observatory and the UCO staff for their dedicated work scheduling and operating the telescopes of Lick Observatory.
We are grateful to the time assignment committees of the University of California, University of Hawai'i, the California Institute of Technology, and NASA for supporting the TESS-Keck Survey with observing time at Keck Observatory and on the Automated Planet Finder. We thank NASA for funding associated with our Key Strategic Mission Support project.
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