sunstardb is a publicly accessible database of observations relevant to the study of stellar magnetism. These observations form the basis of the field known as the "solar-stellar connection," which seeks to understand the mechanisms for the production of magnetic field in stars and their dependence on fundamental properties such as mass, luminosity, etc., as well as to understand the place of the Sun's magnetism in this context. sunstardb aggregates and organizes results published in the literature into one place in order to accelerate research efforts in the solar-stellar connection.
sunstardb consists of the following components:
- postgreSQL database
- python APIs for interactive access
- TODO: a web front-end for basic reporting of database contents
More information and announcements may be found at https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/sunstardb
An example can be seen in github by clicking the .ipynb files above, or from this link. (Note that the interactive tables do not work in these links, but do work when running the jupyter notebook server locally by following the installation instructions below.)
sunstardb requires the following packages:
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Install the requirements listed above and ensure they are in your python environment.
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Download the latest release of sunstardb
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In a terminal, change directory to the release downloaded above.
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Fetch the configuration file using one of the following options:
- Using
wget:
wget --user-agent="Lynx/0 libwww-FM/0" 'https://goo.gl/h1WH2A' -O sunstardb.cfg- Using
curl:
curl -L --user-agent "Lynx/0 libwww-FM/0" 'https://goo.gl/h1WH2A' > sunstardb.cfg- Or, if neither of the above utilities are installed, using your
usual web browser. Go to http://bit.ly/sunstardb_user and save the output
to a file named
sunstardb.cfgin the top-level folder.
- Using
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export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH -
Run the example notebook:
jupyter notebook 'sunstardb long example.ipynb'In the jupyter notebook menu, select "Cell -> Run All"