zkbt / exoatlas

Tools for compiling and plotting populations of transiting exoplanets.
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Make some "signal vs brightness" plots. #52

Open zkbt opened 3 months ago

zkbt commented 3 months ago

Let's please make some plots showing the brightness of a host star (in either G magnitude or some units like photons/s/m^2/nm) on one axis, and a transiting exoplanet observable signal (transit depth, transmission depth, thermal eclipse depth, reflected light depth) on the other axis.

This is a little bit reproducing plots from https://zkbt.github.io/exoatlas/observing/, but I think it's probably good to spend a little time playing around with the ingredients that go into those. One other thing you might explore on this might be a plot showing Gaia G magnitude vs the estimate for the photon flux at an optical-ish wavelength that's built into the observable_summary plots. It might take a little digging into the code and/or talking with me to learn more how all these things are calculated (and then we'll try to document them better!)