CMEchaser, detecting line-of-sight occultations due to Coronal Mass Ejections
- Resource Type
- Authors
- G. Shaifullah; Caterina Tiburzi; Pietro Zucca
- Source
- Subject
- Physics
Line-of-sight
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Python (programming language)
01 natural sciences
Occultation
Coronal mass ejections, interplanetary
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Coronal mass ejections, initiation and propagation
Celestial coordinate system
0103 physical sciences
Physics::Space Physics
Coronal mass ejection
Interplanetary spaceflight
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
computer
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
computer.programming_language
- Language
We present a python-based tool to detect the occultation of background sources by foreground Solar coronal mass ejections. The tool takes as input standard celestial coordinates of the source and translates those to the Helioprojective plane, and is thus well suited for use with a wide variety of background astronomical sources. This tool provides an easy means to search through a large archival dataset for such crossings and relies on the well-tested Astropy and Sunpy modules.
Comment: accepted for publication in Solar Physics