TEA-phot

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Installation Instructions

(These instructions should be identical for a Linux or Mac environment and a minimum system requirement is Python 3.7 or later)


  • TEA-Phot can be directly downloaded from here or the repository can quickly be cloned through the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/DominicBowman/tea-phot.git

Note: If you use the TEA-Phot code to produce results for a scientific publication, we ask you to please adhere to the citation requests of the developers that are on their main repository page (link above).

  • TEA-Phot requires only four additional Python modules. To install (if not already) run the following command in the terminal:
pip3 install numpy matplotlib sep astropy

"How-to" Instructions and Tips

(NB: TEA-phot currently only supports SHOC data (incl. flats and bias files) in a cube format)

  • To reduce and extract photometry from SHOC using TEA-phot, in the terminal navigate to the folder that contains the TEA-Phot.py file.
  • To display basic usage and optiinal arguments run:
python3 TEA-Phot.py -h