sdss-marvin 2.0.3

Toolsuite for dealing with the MaNGA dataset

# Marvin
Marvin is the ultimate tool to visualise and analyse MaNGA data. It is developed and maintained by the MaNGA team.

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[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.166110)

Installation
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To painlessly install Marvin:

pip install sdss-marvin

If you would like to contribute to Marvin's development, you can clone this git repo, pip install the dependencies, update the submodules, and then setup with `python setup.py install`:

git clone https://github.com/sdss/marvin
cd marvin
pip install -r requirements.txt
git submodule init
git submodule update
python setup.py install


What is Marvin?
---------------

Marvin is a complete ecosystem designed for overcoming the challenge of
searching, accessing, and visualizing the MaNGA data. It consists of a
three-pronged approach of a web app, a python package, and an API. The web app,
Marvin-web, provides an easily accessible interface for searching the MaNGA data
and visual exploration of individual MaNGA galaxies or of the entire sample. The
python package, in particular Marvin-tools, allows users to easily and
efficiently interact with the MaNGA data via local files, files retrieved from
the [Science Archive Server](https://sas.sdss.org), or data directly grabbed
from the database. The tools come mainly in the form of convenience functions
and classes for interacting with the data. An additional tool is a powerful
query functionality that uses the API to query the MaNGA databases and return
the search results to your python session. Marvin-API is the critical link that
allows Marvin-tools and Marvin-web to interact with the databases, which enables
users to harness the statistical power of the MaNGA data set.

Citation and Acknowledgements
-----------------------------

If you use Marvin for work/research presented in a publication (whether directly, or as a dependency to another package), we ask that you cite the [Marvin Software](https://zenodo.org/record/166110) (BibTeX). We provide the following as a standard acknowledgment you can use if there is not a specific place to cite the DOI:

*This research made use of Marvin, a core Python package and web framework for MaNGA data, developed by Brian Cherinka,
José Sánchez-Gallego, and Brett Andrews. (MaNGA Collaboration, 2016).*

Marvin's Bibtex entry to use:

@misc{brian_cherinka_2016_166110,
author = {Brian Cherinka and
José Sánchez-Gallego and
Brett Andrews},
title = {sdss/marvin: Marvin Beta},
month = nov,
year = 2016,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.166110},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.166110}
}