Before reduction and analysis

0. Create a directory where you will store all the MuSCAT2 analyses. This isn’t strictly necessary, but makes life easier in the future. I’ll call this directory M2ROOT from now on, but the name doesn’t matter.

1. Execute m2init >target_name> in the root directory to create an analysis directory <target_name> with the default directory structure

   > cd M2ROOT
   > m2init <target_name>
   

2. Copy the photometry from each night to <target_name>/photometry/<yymmdd> subdirectories.

3. Move into the analysis directory and execute m2nbtemplate to create a template notebook

   > cd <target_name>
   > m2nbtemplate <target_name> <yymmdd>
   

4. Open the template notebook in Jupyter. It’s a good practice to run a Jupyter notebook server from the M2ROOT so that you don’t need to start a new server for each analyses. So, if you don’t have a server running, do

   > cd M2ROOT
   > jupyter notebook