Welcome to Blast’s documentation!

Blast is developed on GitHub.

Blast is a public web application built to find a transient’s host galaxy, identify the available archival data, and measure the resulting host galaxy star formation rates, masses, and stellar ages - for every new transient reported to the IAU in real-time after the transient is announced. This information is not provided by any existing transient broker service.

Blast is currently developed by the UCSC Transients Team.

Usage

Usage

• Web Pages
  • List of Ingested Transients
  • Individual Transient Pages
  • Authorized Users
• Web API
  • Downloading Blast data for individual tables via Python
  • Blast API data model
  • Downloading all Blast data for a given transient
  • Science payload data model
• Batch
  • Input transient file
  • Output results file
  • Environment setup
  • Running in batch mode

Developer Guide

Developer Guide

• Getting started
  • We need your help
  • Code of Conduct
• Running Blast locally
  • Install the Docker Desktop app
  • Clone the Blast repository
  • Setup environment file
  • Run the Blast app
  • Persistent data volumes
  • Testing the Blast app
• Blast system pages
  • Django admin dashboard
  • Flower
  • RabbitMQ
• Developer workflow
  • General workflow
• Repository overview
  • run
  • nginx
  • docs
  • docker
  • env
  • data
  • .github
  • app
• What to work on?
  • Entry level issues
  • Intermediate issues
  • Advanced issues
  • Documentation
  • Slim stack
  • Full stack
• Documentation
• Task Runners
  • Transient Task
  • System Task
  • Registering your task
• New dependencies
• FAQs
  • How can I run Blast on Kubernetes?

Code API

Code API

• models.py
  • Acknowledgement
  • Aperture
  • AperturePhotometry
  • Catalog
  • CatalogPhotometry
  • Cutout
  • ExternalRequest
  • ExternalResourceCall
  • Filter
  • Host
  • SEDFittingResult
  • SkyObject
  • Status
  • Survey
  • Task
  • TaskRegister
  • TaskRegisterSnapshot
  • Transient
  • fits_file_path()
  • hdf5_file_path()
  • npz_chains_file_path()
  • npz_model_file_path()
  • npz_percentiles_file_path()
• transient name server
  • build_tns_get_query_data()
  • build_tns_header()
  • build_tns_query_data()
  • build_tns_search_query_data()
  • build_tns_url()
  • get_daily_tns_staging_csv()
  • get_tns_credentials()
  • get_tns_zipped_csv()
  • get_transients_from_tns()
  • get_transients_from_tns_by_name()
  • query_tns()
  • rate_limit_query_tns()
  • tns_staging_blast_transient()
  • tns_staging_file_date_name()
  • tns_to_blast_transient()
  • update_blast_transient()
• base_tasks.py
  • SystemTaskRunner
  • TaskRunner
  • TransientTaskRunner
  • initialise_all_tasks_status()
  • task_soft_time_limit
  • update_status()
• datamodel.py
  • DataModelComponent
  • serialize_blast_science_data()
  • unpack_component_groups()
• components.py
  • aperture_component()
  • host_component()
  • photometry_component()
  • sed_fit_component()
  • transient_component()

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

• Software
• Contributors
• Data sources
  • Simulated Training Data for the Blast Transient Host Galaxies Web Application
  • FSPS: Flexible Stellar Population Synthesis