pz-rail-lephare

RAIL LePHARE

This package allows users to run the LePHARE code through RAIL. It can be installed via pip with the following command. Full documentation is available at the main LePHARE documentation.

pip install pz-rail-lephare

RAIL: Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers

This package is part of the larger ecosystem of Photometric Redshifts in RAIL. This package in particular is concerned with wrapping the LePHARE template fitting code within RAIL.

Developer installation

This package can be installed from source using the following commands to allow working on the code.

git clone https://github.com/LSSTDESC/rail_lephare.git
cd rail_lephare
conda install -c conda-forge pytables
pip install -e '.[dev]'

Citing RAIL

RAIL is open source and may be used according to the terms of its LICENSE (BSD 3-Clause). If you used RAIL in your study, please cite this repository https://github.com/LSSTDESC/RAIL, and RAIL Team et al. (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02928

@ARTICLE{2025arXiv250502928T,
       author = {{The RAIL Team} and {van den Busch}, Jan Luca and {Charles}, Eric and {Cohen-Tanugi}, Johann and {Crafford}, Alice and {Crenshaw}, John Franklin and {Dagoret}, Sylvie and {De-Santiago}, Josue and {De Vicente}, Juan and {Hang}, Qianjun and {Joachimi}, Benjamin and {Joudaki}, Shahab and {Bryce Kalmbach}, J. and {Kannawadi}, Arun and {Liang}, Shuang and {Lynn}, Olivia and {Malz}, Alex I. and {Mandelbaum}, Rachel and {Merz}, Grant and {Moskowitz}, Irene and {Oldag}, Drew and {Ruiz-Zapatero}, Jaime and {Rahman}, Mubdi and {Rau}, Markus M. and {Schmidt}, Samuel J. and {Scora}, Jennifer and {Shirley}, Raphael and {St{\"o}lzner}, Benjamin and {Toribio San Cipriano}, Laura and {Tortorelli}, Luca and {Yan}, Ziang and {Zhang}, Tianqing and {the Dark Energy Science Collaboration}},
        title = "{Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL): Rubin-era photometric redshift stress-testing and at-scale production}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies},
         year = 2025,
        month = may,
          eid = {arXiv:2505.02928},
        pages = {arXiv:2505.02928},
          doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2505.02928},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2505.02928},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250502928T},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Please consider also inviting the developers as co-authors on publications resulting from your use of RAIL by making an issue. A convenient list of what to cite may be found under Citing RAIL on ReadTheDocs. Additionally, several of the codes accessible through the RAIL ecosystem must be cited if used in a publication.

Citing this package

If you use this package, you should also cite the appropriate papers for each code used. A list of such codes is included in the Citing RAIL section of the main RAIL Read The Docs page.