Astronomical Trigger Filtering

This package provides algorithms for reducing the number of superfluous triggers that occur in matched template searches pipelines use in astronomy.

Installation

pip install astro-trigger-filter

Command line tool

The ambertf command line tool process Amber formatter trigger files. To combine and filter all trigger files matching CB??.trigger run:

shell> ambertf -i "CM??.trigger" -o output.txt -v
_images/radio_pulse_template.png
_images/overlap_region.png

Requirements

  • Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7