Module: kbmod_info

class kbmod.kbmod_info.KbmodInfo(results_filename, image_filename, visit_list, visit_mjd, results_visits, observatory)

Hold and process the information describing the input data and results from a KBMOD search.

Methods

format_results_mpc()	This method will take in a row from the results file and output the astrometry of the object in the searched observations into a file with MPC formatting.
get_searched_radec(obj_idx)	This will take an image and use its WCS to calculate the ra, dec locations of the object in the searched data.
mpc_reader(filename)	Read in a file with observations in MPC format and return the coordinates.
save_results_mpc(file_out)	Save the MPC-formatted observations to file.

format_results_mpc()

This method will take in a row from the results file and output the astrometry of the object in the searched observations into a file with MPC formatting.

Returns:

mpc_lines: list of strings

List where each entry is an observation as an MPC-formatted string

get_searched_radec(obj_idx)

This will take an image and use its WCS to calculate the ra, dec locations of the object in the searched data.

Parameters:

obj_idx: int

The index of the object in the KBMOD results for which we want to calculate orbital elements/predictions.

static mpc_reader(filename)

Read in a file with observations in MPC format and return the coordinates.

Parameters:

filename: str

The name of the file with the MPC-formatted observations.

Returns:

coords: astropy SkyCoord object

A SkyCoord object with the ra, dec of the observations.

times: astropy Time object

Times of the observations

save_results_mpc(file_out)

Save the MPC-formatted observations to file.

Parameters:

file_out: str

The output filename with the MPC-formatted observations of the KBMOD search result. If None, then it will save the output as ‘kbmod_mpc.dat’ and will be the default file in other methods below where file_in=None.