Welcome to the pstools documentation

Pointing Scheduler Tools (PSTools) is a Python package to help develop observing strategies for astronomical telescopes.

pstools provides utilities to:

  • generate pointing list for specific telescope, depending on its searching strategy, i.e. tiling or galaxy monitoring search.

  • evaluate trigger HEALPix map via Healpy/HEALPix, i.e. GW, GRB, or AMON.

  • optimize observing strategy in order to cover effective the trigger probability, the local luminous mass, visibility, and the detection efficiency.

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