A web application for interacting with astronomical source catalogues.
Sourcery displays an object catalog as a table, with clickable links that open a page for each source. Each source information page contains an image plot (with support for multiple images from different surveys, and overplotting catalogs and contours), controls for editing user-defined database fields (e.g., comments on each object), a table of objects found in NED in the same region, and a full table of the object properties.
The catalog can be queried to select subsets of objects, and the output can be exported as a .fits table, .csv, or DS9 .reg (region) file.
To get an idea of how Sourcery works and see some screenshots, take a look at the example.
Sourcery itself is written in Python (2.7.x - currently) and uses MongoDB (tested on 2.6.10) for data storage. In addition, it requires the following Python modules to be installed (current versions used by the author are given in brackets, earlier and later versions may also work):
- astLib (0.10.1)
- astropy (2.0.4)
- CherryPy (11.0.0)
- Cython (0.23.4)
- IPython (5.5.0; used for debugging only)
- matplotlib (2.1.0)
- NumPy (1.14.1)
- PIL (1.1.7; or Pillow 3.1.2)
- pymongo (3.2)
- requests (2.18.4)
- SciPy (0.17.0)
- pyvips (2.0.4)
- PyYAML (3.12)
- passlib (1.7.1)
- concurrent.futures
As root:
sudo python setup.py install
Or, in your home directory:
python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/local
Then add $HOME/local/bin to $PATH, and e.g., $HOME/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages to $PYTHONPATH.
export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
See the example for a tutorial, some screenshots of what to expect, and an explanation of the configuration file.
See here for a step-by-step guide to deploying Sourcery on the Apache webserver running on Ubuntu 16.04.
Please contact Matt Hilton [email protected].