VAST Tools

This repository holds the code of the VAST Tools, a Python module to interact with results from the VAST Pipeline and the VAST Pilot Survey data.

Please read the Installation Instructions. If you have any questions or feedback, we welcome you to open an issue. If you are interested in contributing to the code, please refer to the Contributing and Developing section in the documentation.

Features

• The ability to interactively explore results from the VAST Pipeline, which includes:
  • Viewing light curves and postage stamps.
  • Performing transient analysis.
  • Crossmatching to external surveys.
  • Allowing for custom analyses to be easily performed.
• Explore the VAST Pilot Survey footprints and check source coverage.
• Query the VAST Pilot Survey data directly.
• Perform forced extractions in the Pilot Survey data.
• Search for the Sun, Moon and planets in the data, including pipeline outputs.
• Notebook friendly package.

Note that some features require access to the VAST Pilot Survey data.

Example Notebooks

Take a look at the example notebooks section to see what is possible with VAST Tools!

Contributors

Active

• Adam Stewart – Sydney Institute for Astronomy
• Dougal Dobie – Sydney Institute for Astronomy and OzGrav

Former

• Emil Lenc Australia Telescope National Facility
• Andrew O'Brien – Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Tara Murphy – Sydney Institute for Astronomy
• David Kaplan – Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Acknowledgements

The VAST Tools development was supported by:

• The Australian Research Council through grants FT150100099 and DP190100561.
• The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), project numbers CE170100004 and CE230100016.