scorpio-gp 0.2

SCORPIO is a tool for analyze galaxy pairs.

SCORPIO

Sky COllector of galaxy Pairs and Image Output (Scorpio) Is a tool to quick analyze and generate images of galaxy pairs, using data from different surveys.

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Motivation

The interacting galaxies are one of the most interesting events in the area of extragalactic astronomy. The degree of interaction can sometimes be biased by projection effects. From the osbervation point of view, a visual image obtained from the photometry of these objects makes it possible to establish and quantify some features of this interaction, such as tidal tails and other deformations caused by gravitational force.

Features

The essential input parameters are RA, DEC, redshift (and other optional data such as survey and filters) for each of the galaxies of interest.

Based on these, the application has several functions that:

• Check and download the .fits files in each survey and filter, using astroquery tools.
• stack and generate a single array with the information
• Calculate the distance in physical units and in pixels.
• Export the image in the desired format and directory.

Code and issues

The entire source code of is hosted in GitHub https://github.com/josegit88/SCORPIO

License

SCORPIO is under MIT

A short, permissive software license. Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source. There are many variations of this license in use.

Installation

This is the recommended way to install SCORPIO.

Installing with pip

Make sure that the Python interpreter can load SCORPIO code. The most convenient way to do this is to use virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, and pip.

After setting up and activating the virtualenv, run the following command:

$ pip install scorpio-gp
...

That should be it all.

Installing the development version

If you’d like to be able to update your SCORPIO code occasionally with the latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:

Make sure that you have Git installed and that you can run its commands from a shell. (Enter git help at a shell prompt to test this.)

Check out SCORPIO main development branch like so:

$ git clone https://github.com/josegit88/SCORPIO.git
...

This will create a directory SCORPIO in your current directory.

Then you can proceed to install with the commands

$ cd SCORPIO
$ pip install -e .
...

Documentation

The full documentation of the project are available in https://scorpio-rdd.readthedocs.io

Contact

For bugs or question please contact

José Benavides [e-mail]