Welcome to OTTER!

• This repo provides tutorials for accessing the OTTER datasets and on some basic tools it provides.

• For API documentation see https://astro-otter.readthedocs.io

• If you have issues with the dataset, wish there was a feature that is missing in the data or api, or have issues with the API, please add an issue in our github issues page.

• If you would like to follow along with any of these tutorials, see the examples repository on the astro-otter github organization

We recommend you follow these tutorial notebooks in the following order:

1. basic_usage.ipynb: Goes through the basic access of the OTTER dataset.

2. transient_objects.ipynb: Goes through the details of the OTTER Transient object which allows for easy access of many commonly used properties.

3. host_objects.ipynb: Goes through working with Host information of the objects in otter.

4. plotting.ipynb: Goes through some useful plotting utils that OTTER provides for quick visualization of the data.

5. accessing_wiserep_spec.ipynb Accessing Transient Spectroscopy from WISeREP for OTTER events.

6. modeling.ipynb: Goes through applying MOSFiT models to OTTER datasets

7. private_data.ipynb: Goes through interfacing with and combining private, locally stored, datasets with OTTER data