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Kilonova Candidate Vetting

Package for assessing viability of candidate counterparts to GW events.

  • Free software: 3-clause BSD license
  • Documentation: (COMING SOON!)

Features

Point source cross-matching with:

  • Milliquas catalog (Flesch 2015, 2021)
  • ASAS-SN variable star catalog (Jayasinghe et al. 2019)
  • Gaia DR3 (Gaia Collaboration 2023; Rimoldini et al. 2023)
  • Panstarrs point source catalog (Tachibana and Miller 2018)

Galaxy cross-matching:

  • Legacy Survey DR10 photometric redshift catalog (Zhou et al. 2023)
  • DESI spectroscopic redshift catalog (DESI Collaboration et al. 2023)
  • PS1 STRM photometric redshift catalog (Beck et al. 2021)
  • SDSS DR12 photometric redshift catalog (Alam et al. 2015)
  • GWGC catalog (White et al. 2011)
  • GLADE+ catalog (Dálya et al. 2022)
  • HECATE catalog (Kovlakas et al. 2021)

Fetches photometry from:

  • TNS (Gal-Yam 2021)
  • ZTF (public; Bellm et al. 2019; Masci et al. 2019; Patterson et al. 2019)
  • ATLAS (forced photometry; Tonry et al. 2018, Smith et al. 202, Shingles et al. 2021), stacks photometry from a single night