Package: tomtoolkit
TOM ToolkitDocumentationThe TOM Toolkit is a web framework for building TOMs: Target and Observation
Managers. TOMs are meant to facilitate collaborative astronomical observing
projects. A typical TOM allows its users to curate target lists, request
observations of those targets at various observatories as well as manage and
organize their data.Read moreabout TOMs.Getting started with the TOM ToolkitThegetting started guidewill guide you through the process of setting up a TOM for the first time.Reporting issues/feature requestsPlease use theissue trackerto
report any issues or support questions.Development TeamThe lead developers of the TOM Toolkit areWilliam LindstromandJoey Chatelain,
professional software developers with the Las Cumbres Observatory software team,
together withJon Nation,Curtis McCully,Matt DailyandMark Bowman.Rachel Streetis the project's Principle Investigator.
The TOM Toolkit is grateful for the advice and collaboration withAndy Howell,Edward Gomez, Craig Pellegrino, Jamie Burke and the rest of the LCO Science team.
Theoriginal Toolkitwas developed by
Austin Riba, David Collom and William Lindstrom.Our team very much welcome input from the community, and we are grateful to
the following people for their many contributions:Dan Avner, NOIRLabDoug Arnold, Liverpool TelescopeEtienne Bachelet, IPAC/CaltechEzequiel Contreras Martinez, UCSBGriffin Hosseinzadeh, University of ArizonaBryan Miller, Gemini ObservatoryBrendan Mills, UCSBJulien Peloton, FinkAcknowledgementsWe hope you find our software useful for your research.  If so, we would be grateful
if you can include a brief acknowledgement in your papers and presentations, for example
"This research made use ofThe TOM Toolkit".
We would also very much appreciate you including a citation to our paper describing
the ToolkitStreet, R.A. et al., 2018, SPIE, 10707, 11(to export the BibTeX please clickhere).Contributing to the projectIf you'd like to contribute to the TOM Toolkit, first of all, thanks! Secondly, we
have acontribution guidethat
you might find helpful. We are particularly interested in the contribution of
observation and alert modules.Community Code of ConductWe encourage developers to maintian a lively and civil discourse either on github or in our slack workspace.
Please review ourcode of conductfor information about what is considered unacceptable behavior and how to report it.Developer informationFor development information targeted at the maintainers of the project, please seeREADME-dev.md.Pluginstom_alerts_dashThetom_alerts_dashplugin adds responsive ReactJS views to thetom_alertsmodule for supported brokers.AntaresThetom-antaresplugin adds support
for querying the Antares broker for targets of interest.tom_nonsidereal_airmassThetom_nonsidereal_airmassplugin provides a templatetag
that supports plotting for non-sidereal objects. The plugin is fully supported by the TOM Toolkit team; however,
non-sidereal visibility calculations require the PyEphem library, which is minimally supported while its successor
is in development. The library used for the TOM Toolkit sidereal visibility, astroplan, does not yet support
non-sidereal visibility calculations.tom-ltThis module provides the ability to submit observations to the Liverpool Telescope Phase 2 system. It is in a very alpha
state, with little error handling and minimal instrument options, but can successfully submit well-formed observation
requests.Githubtom_registrationThetom_registrationplugin introduces support for two TOM registration
flows--an open registration, and a registration that requires administrator approval.About the TOM ToolkitThe TOM Toolkit is managed by Las Cumbres Observatory, with generous
financial support from theNational Science Foundationgrant 2209852.
We are also grateful for support from theHeising-Simons Foundationand theZegar Family Foundationat the start
of the project.