Target

class dorado.Target(name)

Bases: object

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

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([objectClass])	export will record the TOI object into the dorado targets directory for future use and reference.
record(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. WARNING:: This function is currently not complete and no garentee is given on its compatability or reliability.

Parameters:

filter: str

String representation of the relevent filter.

Returns:

None

export(objectClass=None)

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

Parameters:

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(cr, saveType='fits')

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

Parameters:

cr: string

The relevent name string of Ceres instance 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