Version 2.1

The version of the Pipeline discussed in my Master's Dissertation. Now includes host galaxy cross-matching, and updated thresholding limits on the discovery magnitude and date.

Version 2

Version 2 of the SALT&PEPPER pipeline has a new system of making requests to the Liverpool Telescope. Now 2 requests are made from one priority score list; for the night it is formulated and the subsequent one. This avoids targets being requested twice on the same night. Due to this change, a new method of recording requests has been implemented and other refinements to the pipeline have been made.

Version 1.1.2

Fixed issues with the implementation of the blacklist in v1.1.1.

Version 1.1.1

Bug fixes to v1.1, plus some changes to the emails and a new testing mode (runs if the pipeline detects that it has already been run successfully that day).

Version 1.1

Based on v1, but with a new method for checking if observations have been observed and a new module (Sgt. P) which automatically downloads the observational data of the requests made by the pipeline from the LT archive.

Version 1

The first fully operational version of the follow-up pipeline.

Uses updates from the TNS to create a list of relevant transients ordered by their priority score (accounts for discovery time and magnitude, lunar separation, and observable time). Sends out the list as an email, and then requests the top transients to be observed using MOPTOP on the Liverpool telescope. Once the Liverpool Telescope's night log has been released, it checks if the requests were observed and then sends out another email with the statuses of the observations.