A Python package that provides a matplotlib.pyplot.Axes object that displays a Gaia CMD background.
Project description
gaia-cmd-plotter
gaia_cmd_plotter
is a Python package for creating customized Matplotlib axes that display a Gaia Color-Magnitude
Diagram (CMD) background. This package is useful for visualising astronomical data within the context of a Gaia CMD.
Installation
You can install gaia_cmd_plotter using pip
:
pip install gaia-cmd-plotter
Usage
To use the package, first import the GaiaCMDAxis
class from the gaia_cmd_plotter.gaia_cmd_plotter
module.
from gaia_cmd_plotter.gaia_cmd_axis import GaiaCMDAxis
Next, create a new GaiaCMDAxis
object and add it to a Matplotlib figure.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
ax = GaiaCMDAxis(fig)
You can then use the GaiaCMDAxis
object like any other Matplotlib axis. For example, you can plot data on top of
the Gaia CMD background,
bp_rp = 3.5
g_abs = 5.0
ax.plot(bp_rp, g_abs, "ko", ms=10, mec="k")
Acknowledgements
This package has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia mission, processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. The CMD background data was obtained from the Gaia data release 3 (DR3; Gaia Collaboration et al. 2016, 2023). The bulk of points in the CMD background are retrieved from the Gaia DR3 catalog, using the query in Gaia Collaboration 2018.
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