AstroLabels

A set of common (for me) strings used to label astronomy plots.

Typing out axes labels like

plt.ylabel('$\Delta\Sigma^\mathrm{off}(R)\ [M_{\odot}\ \mathrm{pc}^{-2}]$')

gets old, so I'm starting a repository for keeping track of these strings.

You can install this (tiny and not-very-functional-at-this-point) package with

$ pip install AstroLabels

...but probably you should just fork it and add your own labels, so that its useful for whatever kind of plots you make frequently (please send me a pull request if you add some useful stuff).

Here's an example using it to label some Python plots:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn; seaborn.set()

from astrolabels import AstroLabels
al = AstroLabels()

# hopefully your data doesn't look like this...
plt.plot(np.random.rand(10), np.random.rand(10), 'o')
plt.xlabel(al.r_mpc)
plt.ylabel(al.dsigma_off)

Feel free to add your own commonly used labels!