PREFACE Documentation

Prioritization and Ranking of Exoplanets For Astronomical Characterization and Exploration (PREFACE) is a Python package containing an end-to-end pipeline for selection of promising exoplanet transmission spectroscopy observations based on their expected scientific return and observational feasibility.

PREFACE combines telescope characteristics, target properties, observing windows, detector effects, airmass, and optional moonlight modelling to produce numerically ranked observing opportunities for transit follow-up campaigns.

Contents

• Installation
  • Installing from PyPI
  • Installing from Source
• Quickstart
  • Example
• Configuration
  • TelescopeConfigurations
  • OutputConfigurations
  • MoonlightNoiseConfigurations
  • MultiprocessingConfigurations
• Outputs
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
• PREFACE Workflow
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
• Miscellaneous Utilities
  • Listing Supported Telescopes
  • Retrieving Available Filters
  • Opening the Telescope Reference Table
  • Clearing Intermediate Files
• API
  • Core Function
  • Configuration Classes
  • Utilities