euclidlib 2025.2

Unofficial package to read data from the Euclid mission

euclidlib

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgements

Introduction

euclidlib is an unofficial python package to read official Euclid mission products from the Science Ground Segment. The ultimate goal of euclidlib is to provide to the Euclid community a friendly and ready-to-use library that allows to work with the science-ready Euclid products right away. The library is maintained in a best-effort basis by Euclid volunteers and contributors. See acknolwedgements below.

Installation

As simple as:

pip install euclidlib

Prerequisites

• python>3.7
• fitsio
• numpy

Usage

Soon to be announced.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, follow the following steps:

1. Open an issue to let the euclidlib maintainers know about your contribution plans (new Euclid product? New feature? A suggestion?)
2. Create a new branch:

   git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name
   

3. Commit your changes:

   git commit -m 'Add some feature'
   

4. Push to the branch:

   git push origin feature/your-feature-name
   

5. Open a pull request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to the euclidlib contributors so far: Will Hartley & Florian Dubath (redshift bin distribution schema), Felicitas Keil & Martin Kilbinger (photometric 2-point correlation functions reading routines), Nicolas Tessore (photometric power spectra reading routines).