Tools to upload young SN candidates to TNS. Please clone this repository to access the notebooks below.
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The SNhunter tutorial notebook contains instructions on how to check candidates in the SN hunter and how to send them to the Transient Name Server (TNS)
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The ALeRCE TNS send notebook is used to select host galaxies, prepare a report and send to TNS
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The ALeRCE TNS analysis notebook is used to gather statistics about the candidates sent to TNS
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An alerce_tns object is created in lib/alerce_tns.py
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The daily candidates are saved in the candidates directory Use with caution. Note that a TNS API key file is needed for some of the notebooks.