lksearch#
Helpful package to search for TESS/Kepler/K2 data
lksearch is a community developed, open source Python package that offers a user-friendly approach to searching the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) web portal for scientific data and mission products from NASA’s TESS, K2, and Kepler missions.
This package aims to lower the barrier for students, astronomers, and citizen scientists interested in analyzing time-series data from these NASA missions.
It does this by providing a set of streamlined classes with simplified inputs and outputs that wraps Astroquery’s MAST.Observations class with user-friendly post-processing of observation tables and convenient bundled download methods.
Changelog:#
- v1.1.0
Added ability to query catalogs using the catalogsearch module. This includes: - querying vizier for a region for sources using query_region - querying vizier for a catlog for rows corresponding to ids using query_id - querying simbad for alternative names for a given name using query_names - matching alternative names for sources to catalog stings using match_names_catalogs
Added documentation for catalogsearch in docs/tutorials/catalog-searches.ipynb
Broke previous tutorial doucmentation into multiple files: - mission-search focussed data-searches.ipynb - cloud-searches and configuration options in cloud-data-searches.ipynb
Deprecated TESSSearch.search_sector_ffis due to changes in astroquery functionality
- v1.0.1
Now resolving target search strings with MastClass [#27]
- v1.0
The class structure has been modified. The base class is MASTSearch. Users are intended to use mission-specific classes (KeplerSearch/K2Search/TESSSearch) to obtain mission-specific results.
Result tables are saved as pandas dataframs
The TESScut search functionality now uses tesswcs to identify observed sectors
Data products are now generalized (timeseries contains lightcurve products, cubedata contains target pixel files and TESSCut, and dvreports contains pdfs contining data validation reports)
‘download’ now defaults to the AWS cloud storage.
‘download’ only downloads files to disk. It no longer returns a lightkurve object.