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[ascl:1611.010] Kapteyn Package: Tools for developing astronomical applications

The Kapteyn Package provides tools for the development of astronomical applications with Python. It handles spatial and spectral coordinates, WCS projections and transformations between different sky systems; spectral translations (e.g., between frequencies and velocities) and mixed coordinates are also supported. Kapteyn offers versatile tools for writing small and dedicated applications for the inspection of FITS headers, the extraction and display of (FITS) data, interactive inspection of this data (color editing) and for the creation of plots with world coordinate information. It includes utilities for use with matplotlib such as obtaining coordinate information from plots, interactively modifiable colormaps and timer events (module mplutil); tools for parsing and interpreting coordinate information entered by the user (module positions); a function to search for gaussian components in a profile (module profiles); and a class for non-linear least squares fitting (module kmpfit).

Code site:
https://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/index.html
Used in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...761...34L https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A%26A...594A.116H
Bibcode:
2016ascl.soft11010T
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BibTeX on this page: https://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/license.html


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