TESS Web Exploder (TWEXO) - TESS target information loader
Load a local web page with links customized for the TESS target of interest that point to that target on the major online catalogs. Optionally '-E' load all of them in web browser tabs.
Download twexo.py to a local directory
- TWEXO opens tabs on your web browser
- TWEXO saves a local html page to your hard drive
- Always sanity check that the target resolving is retrieving information for your target
- Information for high proper motion targets may not be retrieved correctly
- Display command line arguments and features
python twexo.py -h
- Query by name
python twexo.py -n 'Pi Mensae'
- For the impatient and the EXPLODE experience add -E
python twexo.py -n 'Pi Mensae' -E
- Query by TOI number
python twexo.py -toi 144.01
- Query by TIC number
python twexo.py -t 261136679
- Query by Coordinates in decimal degrees
python twexo.py -c 84.291198 -80.469143
Christopher J. Burke (MIT). Testing and Advice from Susan Mullally (STScI), Jennifer Burt (MIT), Rolan Vanderspek (MIT), Eric Jensen (Swarthmore), and Karen Collins (CfA)
V0.4 & 0.5
- GAIA cone search link via MAST added. URL formatting changes in order to support wkhtmltopdf conversion to pdf saving.
V0.3
- Extra GAIA information display; TESSCut target pixel file download link; treated some bugs and value checking that cropped due to missing catalog values
V0.2.1
- Added timeout check during the DV report search at MAST to not lead to error
V0.2
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Fixed Finder Chart URL to work.
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Added some proper motion adjustments to position to get better GAIA match for high proper motion objects
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Some basic TIC and GAIA DR2 information about target is not shown on main page
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If you have tess-point installed (pip install tess-point), it will show which TESS sectors the target is observable in TESS year 1. If you don't have tess-point installed that is okay it checks and does not show this information
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If NASA Ames SPOC DV reports for this target exist links to them will be given in a list.
- Explode mode doesn't work for MAST links (click on link works)
- Currently this is target based, but want to point to TOI or planet candidate pages
- Exo.mast.stsci.edu for the TOI based linking
- Add as page to the TESS-ExoClass candidate reports
- Someway (lightkurve?) to load a jupyter notebook or other on demand light curve examination product from the web.
- Capability to set an observatory location and provide links to airmass tables and links to transit event observability calculators online.
- The coding is atrocious. Need to make many of the procedures into functions to clean things up.
- python 3+
- astropy 3+
- numpy
- astroquery 0.3.9+
- Mac - Development and testing is primarily done on Mac. No issues.
- Windows - Under Anaconda w/ python 3.6 appears to work
- Linux - First time use it crashed chrome browser. However, it appears stable with no browser crashing with subsequent usage.
Includes code from the python MAST query examples https://mast.stsci.edu/api/v0/pyex.html , Brett Morris (UW) for name resolving help from the tess-point project