pyckles.spectral_library module¶

class pyckles.spectral_library.SpectralLibrary(catalog_name=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Bases: object

A container for a library of spectra

Holds and returns spectra from various catalogues in various python-friendly formats, such as: synphot.SourceSpectrum, astropy.Quantity, numpy.ndarray, and fits.BinTableHDU

Spectra can be accessed by using the attribute syntax:

>>> spec_lib = pyckles.SpectralLibrary("pickles")
>>> spec_lib.A0V

or using the item syntax:

>>> spec_lib["A0V"]

The returned spectrum is formatted according to the meta["return_style"] parameter:

>>> spec_lib.meta["return_style"] = 'fits'
>>> type(spec_lib.A0V)
astropy.io.fits.hdu.table.BinTableHDU

Parameters:

catalog_namestr: The name of the spectral catalogue. See get_catalog_list

Examples

List the available spectra:

>>> import pyckles
>>> spec_lib = pyckles.SpectralLibrary("pickles", return_style="quantity")
>>> spec_lib.available_spectra
<Column name='name' dtype='str5' length=131>
  A0I
A0III
 A0IV
  ...
K2III
K3III
K4III

Get an A0V spectrum:

>>> vega = spec_lib.A0V
>>> vega
[<Quantity [ 1150.,  1155.,  1160., ..., 24990., 24995., 25000.] Angstrom>,
<Quantity [0.181751, 0.203323, 0.142062, ..., 0.00699 , 0.006986, 0.006983] erg / (Angstrom cm2 s)>]

Return synphot.SourceSpectrum objects instead of a list of Quantity arrays:

>>> spec_lib.meta["return_style"] = "synphot"
>>> spec_lib.A0V
<synphot.spectrum.SourceSpectrum at 0x251800272e8>

Attributes:

available_spectra

Methods

load(catalog_name)

Loads the catalogue for a valid string catalog_name

property available_spectra¶

load(catalog_name)[source]¶: Loads the catalogue for a valid string catalog_name

pyckles.spectral_library.spectrum_from_hdu(hdu, return_type='fits')[source]¶

Converts a BinTableHDU into the required return_type format

Parameters:

hduBinTableHDU: A BinTableHDU spectrum with column names: wavelength, flux
return_typestr: The format of the returned spectra - See SpectralLibrary docs

Returns:

specvarious: See above