Wyoming REU Triangulum Project

Plan observations (which fields, what depth, avoid the fields in this paper) and create a text file of the fields centers so that we can record which filters/MJDs have been completed
Let's plan for one observation to our required depth in ugri, and 4 additional observations in g, unless our calculations suggest that this is prohibitive
Conduct observations and obtain raw imaging at WIRO
Reduce imaging
Joe is writing code to extract the point sources from our fields. Apply Joe's code to get magnitudes for each source (at each MJD) for each of our fields
Also get GALEX (UV) and WISE (mid-IR) magnitudes for our sources from the catalogs we have on file at /d/quasar2. The information here should be useful. Note that the WISE files in /d/quasar2/eboss-wise-match-v5b/301 match the DR9 sweeps files at /d/quasar2/dr9/301/
Determine which color cuts we're going to use to select quasars in UV-optical-mid-IR colors. To do this, we'll use known quasars from this fits file of quasars (see, e.g., Chip's tutorial for how to read fits files)
Use astropy.coordinates to match the quasars to the list of sources in each field
The color cuts should reject as many point sources as possible, while retaining quasars
In addition, use code that Adam will provide to determine which sources are more likely to be quasars based on their variability (or devise something yourselves!)

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