A python package for finding comoving neighbors to a target star and returning useful information regarding youth.
This package offers a quick reconnaissance of whether a potential young star has other young, comoving friends nearby.
Written by Adam L. Kraus (UT Austin) and packaged by Aaron Rizzuto (UT Austin)
- The code will query Gaia EDR3 for stars within a volume radius equivalent to the defined search sphere, and with tangential velocities (from proper motion) within the input velocity difference range
- Query 2MASS, GALEX, ROSAT, and WISE on the resulting neighbours
- Make a series of useful plots displaying the search results
- Output a table for all the neighbors containing the combined results
Currently only works with python 3
All available via pip:
galpy
astroquery
astropy
scipy
cartopy (and all of its dependencies)
matplotlib
To install the python 3 version:
git clone https://github.com/adamkraus/Comove.git
cd Comove
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
You can then run the code in the manner described in example.py