The spectrum package
This package provides a template for packages that are affiliated with the project. This package design mirrors the layout of the main Astropy repository, as well as reusing much of the helper code used to organize Astropy. The instructions below describe how to take this template and adjust it for your particular affiliated package.
This package provides tools to manipulate astronomical spectra.
It is based on the Astropy project and will hopefully be affiliated with this
project in the future. Note that the Astropy project already hosts a
a package called specutils. There are some differences in design compared
with specutils, most importantly the class Spectrum in this
package is based on astropy.table.Table. This design decision:
- makes is easy to do things with the spectrum (slice, coadd, join, etc.)
- requires that the WCS is provided as a table column, not as a polynomial of some sort.
Therefore, we currently develop this package independently, but we aim to integrate them eventually.
