Examples

A tutorial of the basic usage of the OTTER API is shown here. More detailed examples will be added with time!

Contents:

• Welcome to OTTER!
• Basic Usage
  • Setup
  • Querying the OTTER Catalog
• Cone Searches
• Sample Selection
• Photometry
• Working with the Transient Class
  • Setup
  • The Transient Class
    • Name
    • Coordinate
    • Classification
    • Redshift
    • Discovery Date
    • Photometry
    • Host Information
  • Advanced Usage of the Transient Class
  • Querying TNS for spectra of this Transient
• Working with the Host Class
  • Simbad
  • ZTF Forced Photometry
  • Get Host Spectra
• Quick Look Plotting
• Basic Plotting
• Slightly More Complex Plotting
• More Complex Plotting: Asymmetric Errorbars
• Accessing WISeREP Spectra from OTTER
  • For an existing transient in OTTER
  • Querying WISeREP for transients not in OTTER
• Applying a Model to light curves
  • Setup
  • Converting the OTTER dataset to MOSFiT format
• Interfacing with Private Data
  • Setup
  • Combining this with the OTTER dataset
• OTTER Paper Plots
  • Some Setup
  • Sections 3 and 4: Summary Plots of the Current Dataset
    • Figure 3: Maximum Confidence Flag
    • Figure 7 (And Figure 16 in Appendix C)
    • Figure 8: Redshift Histogram
    • Figure 9: Lightcurves
    • Figure 10: Photometry Point Wavelength Distribution
    • Figure 11: Number of Observations as a function of year
  • Section 5: Example Analyses
    • Section 5.1: Time Delay Analysis
    • Example 2: ECLE Analysis
    • Example 3: MOSFiT Model
    • Example 4: Testing a ML classifier