This tool helps you go from J2000 RA, Dec and [optionally] magnitude of sources and convert to TIC numbers, using the most up-to-date TIC catalog.
Using the TICFinder class, you can pass RA, Dec and optionally magnitude to search for TIC IDs. (Note: You must use J2000 epoch RA and Dec.)
To use the class, pass in your RA, Dec and optional magnitude, and then use the get_tics class method to query for the TIC IDs. You can then access the tic attribute, or use the to_pandas method to create a csv file of your input with TIC IDs.
from ticfinder import TICFinder
tf = TICFinder(ra=84.2911880010838, dec=-80.4691198186792, magnitude=5.5).get_tics()
print(tf.tic)
>>> [261136679]You can also load a dataframe or a csv file.
tf = TICFinder.from_pandas(df)
tf.get_tics()
print(tf.tic)
>>> [261136679, 261136641, 261136690, ...]
tf.to_pandas()tf.to_pandas will return a pandas.DataFrame with columns
['TIC', 'RA', 'Dec', 'Tmag', 'input_magnitude', 'pix_sep', 'motion_from_2000_to_YEAR_in_pixels']