v1.3.1

Patch release that:

• removes an erroneous comma from requirements.txt

v1.3.0

A minor update release that:

• build_lightcurves: Allows users to choose between integrated and peak (default) flux density when building lightcurves.

v1.2.1

Patch release that:

• find_sources & build_lightcurves: Fixes issues when no images are available (#153, #154).
• Dropbox: Minor Dropbox logging fix.

v1.2.0

This update includes:

• Dropbox Checksum support for VAST Pilot Survey data release v1.0.
• Dropbox Simplified commands required to download (see the Dropbox readme).
• Dropbox File list now packaged within module (data release v1.0).
• Dropbox Added parallel downloading (experimental).
• Dropbox Updated Stokes filtering to support Q and U.
• Dropbox Added ability to preview what will be downloaded (--dry-run option).
• find_sources Updated Stokes filtering to support Q and U.
• find_sources Fixed RACS not being available in find-fields mode (#133).
• find_sources Fixed empty row in input csv causing crash (#143).
• find_sources Fixed hms coordinates entered with spaces instead of colons (#148).
• find_sources Clarification of issues with sourcefinding near the equatorial origin (#147).
• find_sources Temporarily removed access to RACS Stokes V while the directory structure is being reorganised (ada only).
• build_lightcurves Fixed plotting when all values are upper limits (#146).
• Other bug fixes, minor improvements and documentation clarifications.

v1.1.3

Patch release that:

• Changes the png plot target position marker from x to a crosshair (#126).
• Changes the default light curve plotting behaviour such that the y-axis starts from 0 (was previously automatically defined by matplotlib, #127).

v1.1.2

Patch release that:

• Adds checksum support for Epochs 8 and 9 Stokes I data products (data release v0.6).

v1.1.1

Patch release that fixes two issues:

• Fixed Dropbox --download-epoch option for x epochs (#122).
• --find-fields no longer requires a base folder when not running on ada (#120).

v1.1.0

This update brings:

• Adds build_lightcurve.py to build light curves of find_sources.py output.
• Adds pilot_fields_info.py to obtain information on the pilot fields.
• find_sources.py: Allows multiple epochs to be queried at once.
• find_sources.py: Allows islands to be queried.
• find_sources.py: png legend fix.
• get_vast_pilot_dbx.py: Download by field name.
• get_vast_pilot_dbx.py: Flexible file type and epoch filters available for downloads.
• get_vast_pilot_dbx.py: Checksum improvements.
• get_vast_pilot_dbx.py: Adds checksum support for Epochs 5x, 6x, 7x, 10x and 11x.
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

v1.0.1

This release features the following fixes:

• Positive declination fields now download correctly using get_vast_pilot_dbx.py.

v1.0.0

The v1.0.0 update of vast-tools includes the migration to a python module. Please be sure to check the README file for installation instructions as the scripts are no longer standalone as they were in v0.3.0.

Full changes and new features list:

• Migrated to a module.
• Support for new naming scheme.
• Support for epochs 3x and 4x.
• Dropbox file integrity checking and retries.
• Dropbox download by field name option.
• Dropbox ability to skip or not include selected file types.
• Find sources crossmatch radius overlay on png, ann and region files.
• Find sources synthesised beam png overlay.
• Find sources improved selavy overlays.
• Find sources fixed FITS files not closing.
• Find sources added base-dir option for local data.
• Tested Astropy 4.0 (not compatible until 4.1).
• Support for RACS v3 (data on ada only).

Note this was initially released as v0.4.0 but has been increased to v1.0.0 to be consistent with Semantic versioning. There are no changes between v0.4.0 and v1.0.0.