Version 0.4.7
Last Updated: 2024-04-XX - T. Seccull
Developers: Tom Seccull & Dominik Kiersz
MOTES is a python package used for tracing and extracting spectra of faint astronomical point sources from 2D spectrograms. MOTES is also capable of sky subtraction and , to a limited degree, cosmic ray rejection/masking.
Citation: Please cite .... paper to be written .... if you use MOTES in your research. Need a Zenodo DO
Currently in final stages of development toward v1.0 and release. Dominik's optimal extraction routine is now formally included in MOTES. Documentation is still to be written, as well as an accompanying article that will likely be submitted to one of the AAS journals.
Python 3 is recommended for running MOTES. It is compatible with Python 2.7, but is also noticably slower.
Installing an Anaconda enviroment from a .yml and running MOTES from the environment file will suffice in most cases.
You can install the Anaconda pseudo-distribution for Python from here.
Provided you are in the root directory of this repository, execute the first command to create the environment and install dependencies automatically. The second command will activate the environment.
conda env create --name motes --file=./conda/motes.yml
conda activate motesMOTES can then be executed from motes.py in the root directory.
PDF Manual currently in construction on Overleaf.
Procedures for users to supply new functionality, in particular new harvesters for different instruments.