pyoifits 0.4

OIFITS (Data Exchange Standard for Optical Interferometry, A&A 597, A8, 2017)

Purpose

Read and manipulate Optical Interferometry FITS files. For a definition of the standards

• version 2: Duvert at al. (2017), A&A 597, A8 (abstract) (pre-print)
• version 1: Pauls et al. (2005), PASP 117, 1255 (abstract) (pre-print)

Installation

Site-wide installation will be performed with sudo -H pip3 install pyoifits on unix-like systems.

At a user level, within a virtual environment, pip3 install pyoifits.

Short example

Read and merge to OIFITS datasets and tranform to a standard astropy table.

import oifits

data1 = oifits.read('file1.fits')
data2 = oifits.read('file2.fits')

data = data1 + data2

tab, C = data.to_table(correlations='numpy')
val = tab['value']
err = tab['error']
covar = C * np.outer(err, err)

There is also a short demo.