species 0.0.6

Toolkit for analyzing spectral and photometric data of planetary and substellar atmospheres

spectral and photometric examination code for investigating exoplanet and substellar atmospheres

species is a toolkit for analyzing spectral and photometric data of planetary and substellar objects. It provides a coherent framework for atmospheric characterization which builds on publicly-available data from various resources such as spectral and photometric libraries, atmospheric models, photometry of individual targets, and filter transmission curves. All data are stored in a central database and there are tools available for creating color-magnitude diagrams, fitting atmospheric models and retrieving the posterior distributions, creating synthetic photometry, plotting spectra, etc. The package has been released on PyPI but is still under active development.

Documentation

Documentation can be found at http://species.readthedocs.io.

Attribution

Please cite Stolker et al. in prep. whenever results from species are used in a publication. Please also make sure to give credit to the relevant papers regarding the use of the publicly available data that species is profiting from. More details will follow.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome, please consider forking the repository and creating a pull request. Bug reports can be provided by creating an issue on the Github page.

License

Copyright 2019 Tomas Stolker

species is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3. See the LICENSE file for the terms and conditions.