[ascl:2312.027]
galclaim: GALaxy Chance of Local Alignment algorIthM
galclaim identifies association between astrophysical transient sources and host galaxy. This association is made by estimating the chance alignment between a given transient sky localization and nearby galaxies. The code can be used with various catalogs, including Pan-STARRS, HSC, AllWISE and GLADE. galclaim also pre-checks for nearby bright galaxy using the RC3 catalog (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/w3browse/all/rc3.html). When a nearby galaxy is found, a warning is raised and the properties of the galaxy are saved in a dedicated output file. The package can create plots displaying the computed pval for the found objects for each transient and each catalog; plots are stored in the result/plots directory.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/jgducoin/galclaim
https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-23-00559
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023SoftX..2401582D
- Bibcode:
- 2023ascl.soft12027D