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PyGaia

Contents:

  • Getting started
  • PyGaia in context
  • Tutorials and examples
    • Astrometric precision horizons
    • Astrometric uncertainty models for Gaia DR3+
    • Visualize coordinate transformations on the sky
    • Epoch propagation for astrometry and radial velocities
    • Reproduce the table with photometric uncertainties on the Gaia science performance pages
    • Verify that the implementation of the radial velocity uncertainty model is correct
    • Show relative precision of Gaia DR3 parallaxes
  • User documentation
    • Astrometry tools
    • Photometry utilities
    • Uncertainty models
    • Plotting utilities
    • Utility functions
  • Detailed API documentation
    • angular_distance
    • CoordinateTransformation
    • Transformations
    • EpochPropagation
    • spherical_to_cartesian
    • cartesian_to_spherical
    • normal_triad
    • elementary_rotation_matrix
    • phase_space_to_astrometry
    • astrometry_to_phase_space
    • parallax_uncertainty
    • position_uncertainty
    • proper_motion_uncertainty
    • total_position_uncertainty
    • total_proper_motion_uncertainty
    • magnitude_uncertainty
    • LogMagUncertainty
    • radial_velocity_uncertainty
    • calc_z_plx
    • calc_z_gmag
    • calc_z_bprp
    • gbrminv_from_vminic
    • gminic_from_vminic
    • grvs_from_gmingrp
    • grvs_from_vminic
    • vminic_from_spt
    • vabs_from_spt
    • gabs_from_spt
    • plot_coordinate_transformation_on_sky
    • construct_covariance_matrix
    • gaiadr_timespan
  • .rst

User documentation

User documentation#

  • Astrometry tools
    • Constants
    • Coordinates
    • Vector astrometry
  • Photometry utilities
    • Transformations
    • Utilities
  • Uncertainty models
    • Astrometric uncertainties
    • Photometric uncertainties
    • Radial velocity uncertainties
    • Utility functions
  • Plotting utilities
    • Coordinate transformations
  • Utility functions

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By Anthony Brown

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