Zellars

class dorado.Zellars(name)

Bases: object

The Zellars class represents an astronomical target and handles the targets relevent attributes. Unpassed target parameters will be gathered via astroquery (SIMBAD).

The name is a reference to the now defunct Canadian store chain, Zellars, which many Canadians saw as the Canadian version of the American store chain, Target.

Attributes

name: str

name of target in string format.

Methods Summary

calcmag(filter)	calcmag converts the targets flux and associated uncertainty into an instrumental magnitude and uncertainty.
export(clippy[, objectClass])	export will record the Zellars object into the dorado targets directory for future use and reference.
record(clippy, cr[, saveType])	record writes each filters timeseries to the dorado working data directory for the relevent date and target.

Methods Documentation

calcmag(filter)

calcmag converts the targets flux and associated uncertainty into an instrumental magnitude and uncertainty.

Parameters

filter: str

String representation of the relevent filter.

Returns

self.ts[filter][‘mag’], self.ts[filter][‘mag_unc’]

export(clippy, objectClass=None)

export will record the Zellars object into the dorado targets directory for future use and reference. This function is not implemented yet.

Parameters

clippy: Clippy instance

The active instance of clippy to handle writing the target file

objectClass: str

Class of object to save the target under.

Notes

Examples of object classes may be: ‘star’, ‘galaxy’, ‘exoplanet’, ‘minor planet’, ‘satellite’, ‘white dwarf’, ‘nebula’, ‘messier_object’, ‘O_star’, ‘binary’, ‘globular_cluster’, ‘open_cluster’, ‘galaxy_cluster’, ‘quasar’, ‘AGN’.

Users can craft their own object naming schemes.

record(clippy, cr, saveType='fits')

record writes each filters timeseries to the dorado working data directory for the relevent date and target.

Parameters

clippy: Clippy instance

The active instance of clippy to handle writing the file

cr: Ceres instance

The relevent instance of Ceres for which the timeseries was derived. The save location will be the working directory for this instance.

saveType: str

String representation of the file extension to save to. Default is ‘fits’. See ‘astropy.table - write()’ for acceptable values.

Returns

None