nuwavsource 0.0.4

A package for source exclusion in NuStar observation data using wavelet decomposition

nuwavsource

This package is supposed to be used to detect the sources in NuStar observations and generate a mask excluding the signal from the sources of any kind.

Additionaly, it generates a table containing:

Useful data about the observation:

1. OBS_ID
2. Detector
3. Coordinates in equatorial (ra,dec) and galactical (lon,lat) systems
4. Time of the observation in seconds
5. Exposure

Useful algorythm-related data:

6. Average count rate on unmasked area
7. Portion of unmasked area
8. Specific statistical metric[1] before and after masking the detected sources
9. Root-mean-square of counts in unmasked area

Installation

This package is to be used with Python 3.x.x

To install tha package write

pip install nuwavsource

Usage

To use the package in your project, import it in by writing

from nuwavsource import nuwavsource

You can process the cl.evt file by creating an Observation class object:

obs = nuwavsource.Observation(path_to_evt_file)

Additionally, the energy band in KeV to get events from can be passed as an argument. The default value is [3,20].

obs = nuwavsource.Observation(path_to_evt_file,E_borders=[E_min,E_max])