Installation

How to Install

The GDT-GIFTS package may be downloaded from the GitHub repository. For now, it assumes that the GDT Core Package and Fermi Gamma-ray Data Tools have been preinstalled.

Note

Future versions of the GDT-GIFTS package will be installed from PyPI, for example, using:

pip install astro-gdt-gifts
gdt-data init

Quickstart

You can load GIFTS instrument modules with the following examples:

>>> # import the GIFTS epoch
>>> from gdt.missions.gifts.time import Time
>>> # import the data interface for Tcat data
>>> from gdt.missions.gifts.tcat import Tcat

Known Issues

Warning

This is a prototype toolkit, with ongoing development prior to GIFTS mission launch. Current issues may be found here.