RESOURCES
In this page I collect links that can be useful for people working in time-domain astronomy, or for those who are just curious about what we do.
Gravitational wave follow-up
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GraceDB - Gravitational Wave Candidate Event Database
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Receive alerts via GCN
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How to post GCN circulars
Transient Astronomy resources
Observing resources
Live status of
observatories
(hosted by TreasureMap)
Live status of
gravitational wave detectors
(LIGO, Virgo, GEO600, KAGRA)
Data access
Educational resources
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GROWTH Astronomy Schools: lectures and hands-on modules (Jupyter Notebooks)
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GROWTH Summer School 2020 - online
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GROWTH Summer School 2019 - San Diego, CA, USA: Python Basics; Gravitational Wave Localization and Galaxy Crossmatch; Observing Run Preparation; Data Analysis in X-ray Astronomy; Image Reduction; UV, Optical and IR Photometry; Image Subtraction; Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy; Analysis Methods for Lightcurves of Variable Stars; Asteroids; Radio Analysis; Machine Learning
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GROWTH Winter School 2018 - Mumbai, India: Python Basics; Gravitational Wave Localization and Galaxy Crossmatch; Observing Run Preparation; Data Analysis in X-ray Astronomy; Image Reduction; UV, Optical and IR Photometry; Image Subtraction; Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy; Analysis Methods for Lightcurves of Variable Stars; Asteroids; Radio Analysis I; Radio Analysis II
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Astronomical Techniques (in Python) by Prof. Robert Quimby
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Some excellent slides about optical imaging and photometry
Data visualization resources
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Do you want to compare project timelines or results? Gantt charts might do the trick! Find some of my data visualization code in the igorandreoni/astro-visualization repository on GitHub
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Create amazing skymap figures using Dr. Leo Singer's ligo.skymap Python package