benmontet / tessplan

A tool for planning follow-up observations of transiting TESS planet candidates

tessplan is a tool to schedule observations of TESS objects of interest. It enables the user to determine visible transits of a TOI from any observatory at any future time, and can determine in a given time window what planets will be transiting. It retrieves information from ExoFOP-TESS, so a user can use that information (such as a TFOP Working Group prioritization) to select possible planet candidates to observe.

To install tessplan with pip:

    pip install tessplan

Alternatively you can install the current development version of tessplan:

    git clone https://github.com/benmontet/tessplan
    cd tessplan
    python setup.py install

The notebooks directory of this repository hosts a Jupyter notebook demonstrating use cases for tessplan.

Citations

If tessplan is useful to your research, and you're feeling especially generous, you can cite the astropy-affiliated package astroplan, which handles some of the under-the-hood computations within tessplan:

@ARTICLE{astroplan2018,
   author = {{Morris}, B.~M. and {Tollerud}, E. and {Sip{\H o}cz}, B. and
    {Deil}, C. and {Douglas}, S.~T. and {Berlanga Medina}, J. and
    {Vyhmeister}, K. and {Smith}, T.~R. and {Littlefair}, S. and
    {Price-Whelan}, A.~M. and {Gee}, W.~T. and {Jeschke}, E.},
    title = "{astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python}",
  journal = {\aj},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
   eprint = {1712.09631},
 primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
 keywords = {methods: numerical, methods: observational },
     year = 2018,
    month = mar,
   volume = 155,
      eid = {128},
    pages = {128},
      doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aaa47e},
   adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

tessplan's Issues

Return results into nice astropy or pandas tables