scanninglaw documentation¶
The scanninglaw package aims to provide an easy-to-use portal to the Gaia scanning law.
astronomical surveys. The scanninglaw package is a product of the Completeness of the Gaia-verse (CoG) collaboration.
To get started, take a look at Installation and Examples. For a complete reference to the API, see modules.
If you make use of scanninglaw in your research, please cite
Everall, Boubert, Koposov, Smith & Holl (2021):
@ARTICLE{2021MNRAS.502.1908E,
author = {{Everall}, Andrew and {Boubert}, Douglas and {Koposov}, Sergey E. and {Smith}, Leigh and {Holl}, Berry},
title = "{Completeness of the Gaia-verse - IV. The astrometry spread function of Gaia DR2}",
journal = {\mnras},
keywords = {methods: data analysis, methods: statistical, stars: statistics, Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, Galaxy: stellar content, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
year = 2021,
month = apr,
volume = {502},
number = {2},
pages = {1908-1924},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stab041},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2101.01723},
primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502.1908E},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}