sbpy Tutorials and Workshops Materials

This repository provide tutorials and materials used in workshops related to sbpy.

Future Workshops

Previous Workshops

• European Planetary Science Congress/Division for Planetary Science Joint Meeting (EPSC/DPS) 2019, Genève, Switzerland: Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 13:30 to 15:00 (SMW1.22, Room Ceres)

• Division for Planetary Science Meeting (DPS) 2018, Knoxville, Tennessee: Thursday, October 25, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm (Room 301 D-E)

• European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018, Berlin, Germany: Tuesday, September 18 2018, 18:15 to 20:00 (SMW1.8)

List of Notebooks and Examples

This repository contains a number of examples for how to use sbpy. For your convenience, we here list these examples by topic.

Notebooks related to data handling

• General concepts of DataClass and data handling
• Querying asteroid and satellite ephemerides from JPL Horizons and other systems
• Computing ephemerides with pyoorb
• Querying orbital elements from JPL Horizons and other systems
• Transforming and propagating orbits using pyoorb
• Curating observational data
• Querying observations reported to the Minor Planet Center
• Querying physical properties from JPL SBDB
• Querying molecular data from the JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Catalog
• Parsing asteroid and comet identifiers
• Plotting orbit diagrams

Notebooks related to cometary activity

• Modeling dust coma brightness using Afρ
• Haser model examples
• Calculating non-LTE column densities using pyradex
• Calculating LTE production rates using a Haser Model
• Calculating LTE production rates without photodissociation effects

Notebooks related to photometry and phase curve modeling

• Disk-integrated photometric phase functions

Notebooks related to spectroscopy

• Using spectral gradients

Acknowledgements

sbpy is supported by NASA PDART Grant No. 80NSSC18K0987.