Citations

If you use the Opihi telescope or its accompanying OpihiExarata software, please cite your usage using the following citation information:

Lee, E., Emerson, K. S., Connelley, M. S., Bowe, T., Bus, S. J., and Lockhart, C. Z., “Commissioning ‘Opihi: a wide-angle finderscope for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility”, in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 2022, vol. 12184. doi:10.1117/12.2627277

References

We detail the other projects that OpihiExarata uses to accomplish its goals, in no particular order.

NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

This work utilizes, is utilized by, is built for, and is funded by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is operated by the University of Hawaii under contract 80HQTR19D0030 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

MAST

Some/all of the data presented in this work were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NNX13AC07G and by other grants and contracts.

Minor Planet Center

This work makes use of the Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center)

Scipy

This work makes use of SciPy (Virtanen et. al. 2020).

Matplotlib

This work makes use of matplotlib, a Python library for publication quality graphics (Hunter 2007).

Astropy

This work makes use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et. al. 2018, Astropy Collaboration et. al. 2013).

Numpy

This work makes use of NumPy (Harris et. al. 2020).

Gaia

This work makes use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (website), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

Pan-STARRS1

The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE).

JPL Horizons

This work makes use of the JPL Horizons API service (Giorgini, JD and JPL Solar System Dynamics Group, NASA/JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/; Giorgini et. al. 2001; Giorgini et. al. 1999; Giorgini et. al. 1996)

Astrometry.net

This work makes use of the Astrometry.net Nova web service and installable programs (Lang et. al 2010, Hogg et. al. 2008).

Acknowledgements

OpihiExarata Processing Image

The image used for OpihiExarata when it is busy processing was drawn by Joel Paye.