Open-Source Software

sbpy is an astropy affiliated package that will provide tools for small-body planetary astronomers. The idea is provide a collection of well-tested and documented tools that asteroid and comet observers use on a daily basis. The goal is to improve the reproducibility of results and to make it easier for (young) researchers to try out new ideas. The development of sbpy has just started, as our NASA PDART grant just recently arrived. A lot of work to be done, but a few glimpses of its usefulness can already be seen. ...

In the framework of the MANOS program, I have been working on an automated data analysis pipeline for calibrated asteroid photometry and astrometry from imaging data. This pipeline, which can be applied to any kind of point source observations, is now in a robust state and available through github. For details on the pipeline, please refer to official publication (see below). Resources Mommert, M. (2017), “PHOTOMETRYPIPELINE: An automated pipeline for calibrated photometry”, Astronomy and Computing, 18, 47., publication, arxiv