Updated AAVSO output column titles

Features

• Updated AAVSO Column Titles
• Image alignment faults to “on”
• Updated FOV legend colors

Bugfixes

• Updated observation date check

Updated instructions and obs date treatment

Features

• Updated installation and user instructions

Bugfix

• Updated observation date treatment in the code to avoid error when EXOTIC is run in the Google Colab

Image alignment optional; support multiple headers; added PSF plots

Features

• Added PSF plots
• Updated readme text/links on Github
• Support FITS with multiple headers
• Added open elevation API to get elevation based on lat/long
• Updated plate solution
• Image alignment is now optional (e.g., for large datasets)
• Check user’s date format to avoid any UNIX-related path issues

Bugfixes

• Transit code bug fix
• Update FOV legend and labels

Fixed rounding error

Features

• None this week.

Bugfixes

• Error in rounding prevented writing of AAVSO output file. Function has now been fixed and should now produce the output.

Add trans dur calc; fix sig figs, AAVSO output file, meridian flip, and image alignment

Features

• Add transit duration calculation
• Sped-up image alignment

Bugfixes

• Fix AAVSO output file to normalize flux values by out-of-transit
• Fix significant digits reported
• Fixed meridian flip

inits for real-time reduction; rounding in AAVSO output; BJD_TDB support; mobs date format check; bugfixes

Features:

• Modified the real-time reduction command-line argument to accept the same inits.json used for other reduction methods.
• Now rounding in the AAVSO output file to limit character-length of Results and Priors fields
• Will check that the user has specified correct format for observation date (i.e., no /)
• Support BJD_TDB misspelling of BJD_TBD keyword in image header
• Will return timeout error if astrometry.net website is not responding

Bugs:

• Real-time reduction error fixed.
• Input files had been disconnected from the corruption check and are now aligned properly.
• Fixed a variable name typo
• Fixed user_input val3 error

Inits for real-time reduction; rounding in AAVSO output; bugfixes

Features:

• Modified the real-time reduction command-line argument to accept the same inits.json used for other reduction methods.
• Now rounding in the AAVSO output file to limit character-length of Results and Priors field.s

Bugs:

• Real-time reduction error fixed.
• Input files had been disconnected from the corruption check and are now aligned properly.
• Fixed a variable name typo

Updated instructions

Updated installation and run instructions.

fixed memory allocation realtime data reduction, error calculation fix, OOT normalization

Features

• Now EXOTIC uses substantially less system memory by opening only one file at a time
• Removed unnecessary global variables
• Out-of-transit data now normalized to 1
• Updated time series uncertainty estimation
• Added back in exposure time header scraper
• Only the WCS header will be downloaded from astrometry.net instead of the entire timing file due to small file size
• Updated priors
• Modified way EXOTIC opens up FITS files when only needing the header information (e.g., time) to use less memory
• General code cleanup
• Added back in the ability to check for WCS, retrieving a plate solution, checking for a variable star
• New example and interactive lightcurve fit

Bugfixes

• Minor fix to data masking
• Fix the output for image alignment
• Updated pre-reduced portion of EXOTIC to work with new memory management

New command line arguments

Features:

• An additional command-line argument has been added to adopt all NASA Exoplanet Archive (NEA) parameters, and it will be noted as -nea.

• Command-line arguments have been updated to the following example options (instructions will be updated in PDF soon):

  • python3 exotic.py -red inits.json: Complete reduction with inits.json file

  • python3 exotic.py -pre inits.json: Nested sampler only for prereduced datasets with inits.json file

  • python3 exotic.py -rt image_directory.fits: Real-time reductions with a path to image directory

  • -ov: Can be used with -red & -pre to override the NEA parameters with inits.json parameters.

  • -nea: Can be used with -red & -pre to adopt all NEA parameters with no command-line inputs and will ignore inits.json parameters.

• Some examples of how they can be used with the command-line arguments from above:

  • python3 exotic.py -red inits.json -ov
  • python3 exotic.py -pre inits.json -nea

• Also, -h will give a more in-depth explanation about each flag shown above and what they do by entering python3 exotic.py -h.

Bugfixes:

• None.