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Accessing NASA’s Astrophysics Archives using Python
Friday, 4 June | 11:00 – 13:00 (ET)
NASA's Astrophysics Archives preserve many terabytes of multi-wavelength images, catalogs, and spectra. While many astronomers are familiar with the web tools that are convenient for searching and visualizing these data, programmatic interfaces through Python are increasingly in demand. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the programmatic data access tools available and the tutorial notebooks NAVO offers. We will describe science scenarios that combine multi-wavelength data from the HEASEARC, IRSA, NED, and MAST that participants will then be encouraged to work through themselves. Workshop organizers will be available to help participants with them or adapt them for custom projects.
Registration Fee: $35
Astronomical Research with Astropy
Friday, 4 June | 13:00 – 16:00 (ET)
This workshop will cover the use of Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization, with the focus primarily on packages in the Astropy ecosystem that build upon the core package. The format will include short presentations followed by instructor-guided tutorials where participants will use the tools and be able to ask questions in the company of expert users and developers. This second session will focus on more specialized tools for astronomical research. Likely topics for this session include an introduction to object-oriented programming; coordinated packages such as CCD image reduction (ccdproc), photometry (photutils), and spectroscopy (specutils); and in recognition of this meeting being held jointly with the Solar Physics Division, an introduction to the SunPy package.
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the astropy core package will be helpful. Some familiarity with git and Github will be useful for installing the workshop software on your own computer, as well as an hour or more before the workshop for installation; but we will provide alternatives that do not require git, as well as an option to run the workshop notebooks in the cloud with no installation needed.
Registration Fee: $25
Introduction to Astropy
Friday, 4 June | 9:00 – 12:00 (ET)
This workshop will cover the use of Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization, with the focus primarily on tools in the Astropy library. The goal is to introduce participants to the variety of tools that are available inside the Astropy library and to provide time for participants to explore the science analysis capabilities which the scientific Python ecosystem and community provide. The format will include short presentations followed by instructor-guided tutorials where participants will use the tools and be able to ask questions in the company of expert users and developers. This first session will introduce the core Astropy package and will cover units, quantities, and constants; coordinates; FITS, ASCII, and Astropy tables; and images and their visualization.
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with Python and Numpy will be helpful but is not required; we will send some suggested tutorials before the workshop for those with no prior Python experience. Some familiarity with git and Github will be useful for installing the workshop software on your own computer, as well as an hour or more before the workshop for installation; but we will provide alternatives that do not require git, as well as an option to run the workshop notebooks in the cloud with no installation needed.
Registration Fee: $25
Introduction to SunPy and to the Python in Heliophysics Community Friday, 4 June | 9:00 – 12:00 (ET)
SunPy is an free, open-source, community-organized suite of Python tools that is widely used by the solar/heliophysics community, and fills the same general niche that was once dominated by IDL in solar image analysis. SunPy development is a well-organized enterprise (their website is sunpy.org). The SunPy Project have have held workshops and intro-to-SunPy events at most solar physics meetings over the last few years. The workshops comprise a mix of talks an interactive mini-tutorials that help introduce new users to the platform and/or gain insight into community needs.
Registration Fee: $25
Making the Most of AAS WorldWide Telescope
Friday, 4 June | 11:00 – 12:30 (ET)
AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a free and open-source data visualization tool that runs right in your web browser. Use WWT inside Jupyter to explore imagery and data tables on the sky, or embed it on other websites to share your data with your colleagues, students, and the general public in a slick, intuitive interface. This interactive tutorial will introduce attendees to the WWT tool and its software ecosystem in the context of its applications to research, education, and broader impacts.
Registration Fee: $25
Tools and Tutorials for the analysis of time series data from Kepler/K2 and TESS missions
Friday, 4 June | 13:00 – 13:30 (ET)
In this workshop we will teach the user how to access, analyze, and manipulate data from NASA’s exoplanet missions, Kepler/K2, and TESS. All tools presented will teach the user how to work with time series data for the purpose of scientific research. A set of Jupyter notebooks have been created via a collaboration between NumFocus, MAST, Lightkurve, and TESS GI office. They make use of python astronomical data packages to demonstrate how to analyze time series data from these NASA missions. The workshop assumes a basic knowledge of python and astronomy and will walk the user through several of the concepts outlined below,· How to obtain Kepler/K2 and TESS data products from the MAST archive· How to use LightKurve to access the various data products and create time series· How to analyze and assess various data anomalies and how you might visualize them· How to account for instrumental and noise effects within your data
Registration Fee: $35