TOM Toolkit Plugins¶

We aim to keep the TOM as lightweight and flexible as possible, and we recognize that every team has their own science goals and often need different functions. These often come with added dependencies.

Rather than require users to support all dependencies from all possible functions, we support a range of optional plugin modules for the Toolkit. These range from adding the ability to interface with additional observatories and catalogs, to providing additional plotting or data analytics functionality.

tom_hermes ¶

The Hermes service provides a archive of astronomical alerts. This plugin allows TOM users to query Hermes and share data with the service.

tom_fink ¶

Fink is an alert broker service. This plugin enables users to query this service and harvest alert information.

tom_antares ¶

This plugin adds support for querying the ANTARES broker for targets of interest.

tom_app_template ¶

This repository is designed to provide a starting template for TOM users wishing to develop their own TOM app. This app contains all of the basic workflows, directory structure, testing infrastructure, and instructions you will need to get started.

tom_jpl ¶

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides a number of services supporting Solar System science. This plugin provides a TOM interface to JPL’s SCOUT service.

tom_eso ¶

This plugin enables users to compose and submit observation requests to telescopes at the European Southern Observatory.

tom_regions ¶

This plugin allows a TOM to store sky regions defined from Multi-Order Coverage maps.

tom_registration ¶

This plugin introduces support for two TOM registration workflows–an open registration, and a registration that requires administrator approval.

tom_tns ¶

This plugin enables TOMs to report transient classifications to the Transient Name Server.

tom_alertstreams ¶

Apache Kafka is widely used in astrophysics for the dissemination of alert packages. This plugin enables a TOM system to listen to user-configured alerts streams.

tom_demoapp ¶

This TOM application is not designed to be installed by users, but instead act as a development and demonstration app for users wishing to integrate their own TOM applications with the base TOM toolkit. The code itself serves as example, while the wiki gives a menu of existing integration points.

tom_nonlocalizedevents ¶

Various events in astrophysics are hard to localize, for example gravitational wave or neutrino detections. This app allows the TOM to recognize that a given event may be associated with a number of candidates, and provides custom views designed to support this workflow.

tom_swift ¶

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a space telescope offering UV/Visible and X-ray instrumentation and rapid response capabilities. This plugin enables TOM users to submit requests for Target of Opportunity observations with this spacecraft.

tom_classifications ¶

This app provides a number of data visualization tools for inspecting alert data from multiple brokers.

tom_keck ¶

Application to enable requests for Target of Opportunity observations to be submitted to the Keck Observatories.
Note: to be integrated with AEONlib.

tom-lt ¶

This 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.

tom-toolkit_component_lib ¶

Demonstration of how Javascript front-end components can be integrated with a TOM.

tom_dash ¶

This module demonstrates how Plotly-Dash components can be added to a TOM for data exploration and visualization.

tom_gemini_community ¶

TOM module to enable observations to be submitted to the Gemini Telescope’s Phase 2 system.

tom_nonsidereal_airmass ¶

This plugin 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_publications ¶

This application prototyped tools to enable users to output latex-formatted data from their TOM system.

herokutom ¶

This repository demonstrates how a TOM system can be deployed to a public server using the Heroku platform.

Archived plugins¶

The following plugins are available but not currently supported. In some cases this is because the functionality has been integrated with the base Toolkit.