heapyx 0.1.6

High-energy (X-ray and gamma-ray) astronomical data analysis tools

Welcome To HEAPY 👋

A unified toolkit for timing and spectral analysis of X-ray and gamma-ray transient data.

Prerequisites

HEASoft

Heapy will invoke certain software and commands from HEASoft, such as xselect and ximage. Please ensure that HEASoft is correctly installed on your system, and that the Calibration Database (CALDB) for the mission (e.g., Swift) you are processing is also properly installed.

Fermi GBM Data Tools

Heapy obtains the orbital location and pointing information of Fermi by invoking gbm_data_tools. Therefore, if you require this functionality, please ensure that gbm_data_tools is correctly installed in advance.

If you are using macOS with an Apple silicon chip, you may encounter difficulties compiling older versions of matplotlib (e.g., <= 3.2.1) when installing gbm_data_tools. One possible workaround is to first install a newer version of matplotlib (for example, version 3.8.4) and then install gbm_data_tools without performing dependency checks, using the following command:

$ pip3 install matplotlib==3.8.4
$ pip3 install --no-deps <path_to_tar>/gbm_data_tools-1.1.1.tar

Fermi GBM Response Generator

Heapy generates the response matrix files for Fermi GBM by invoking gbm_drm_gen. It is recommended to install my forked Python packages, which have been fine-tuned to resolve compatibility issues with newer versions of numpy and astropy, and to use TTE data instead of CSPEC data. The specific installation procedure is as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/jyangch/responsum.git
$ pip3 install ./responsum

$ git clone https://github.com/jyangch/gbmgeometry.git
$ pip3 install ./gbmgeometry

$ git clone https://github.com/jyangch/gbm_drm_gen.git
$ pip3 install ./gbm_drm_gen

Installation

Heapy is available via pip:

$ pip3 install heapyx

NOTE: The package name of heapy in pypi is registered as heapyx rather than heapy, as the latter has already been taken.

Documentation

If you wish to learn about the usage, you may check the examples.

License

Heapy is distributed under the terms of the GPL-3.0 license.