Planner for Transit Observations documentation

Welcome to the Planner for Transit Observations (PTO) documentation. PTO is a code for calculation of transit windows, in particular with the intent of observing from ground based telescopes. It has fully implemented API download to NASA Exoplanet Archive, getting updated system parameters for all exoplanets.

This version of the code is in developement.

The main steps are as follow:

1. Selection of database and loading it

2. Filtering down the sample based on criteria

3. Calculation of transit windows

4. Plotting observability of calculated windows based on location

In case of feedback, please contact Michal Steiner (Michal.Steiner@unige.ch) or raise an issue on the Github page (https://github.com/MichalSteiner/PTO).

Furthermore, the code will allow user to simulate a spectral dataset from given spectrograph, allowing to calculate the signal to noise ratio of the observation. This will be implemented in the future.

Setup

Setup:

• Installation

Notebooks:

Notebooks:

• Get started
• Catalogs
• Sample selection and plotting
• Custom ephemeris
• Observing from different sites

API:

PTO package API:

• PTO
  • PTO package