Pandora Input Catalog Database created by gaioffline

The Pandora SmallSat will launch in 2025. The operations and data analysis require a database of stellar targets that can be observed. The mission has created a tool to download and curate a catalog from gaiadr3 and the 2MASS catalogs: https://github.com/christinahedges/gaiaoffline

This dataset is the result when using this tool with its default settings, i.e. a catalog complete to 16th magnitude containing a left join with 2MASS. 

This dataset can be recreated using the tool above with the instructions in the readme. 

To use this dataset alongside the gaiaoffline tool:

Download this database

Install gaiaoffline either via pip or via git cloning the repo and installing with poetry

Open a Python environment and locate the database diretory using from gaiaoffline import DATABASEPATH

Move the downloaded database to the DATABASEPATH given in the step above.

You can check the install by trying a conesearch:

with Gaia() as self:    df = self.conesearch(ra=10, dec=10, radius=0.1)

This should quickly return a result with ~10 entries in the catalog.