A package for detecting and processing sources in radio images. The core of dendrocat contains infrastructure for source detection using astrodendro, noisy source rejection, cataloging, and photometry. Auxiliary classes and methods provide more specialized analysis on already-photometered data.
- Documentation: https://dendrocat.readthedocs.io/
- Source code: https://github.com/cmcclellan1010/dendrocat/
- Source detection using astrodendro
- A suite of customizable apertures, each with masking functionality
- Signal-to-noise calculation
- SNR-based source rejection
- Aperture photometry
- Automatically-generated source catalogs
- Flux-Flux plotting
- Spectral energy distribution plotting
- Matching with external catalogs
- Aperture centering on peak flux
- Beam aperture and Beam Background aperture
dendrocat requires the following packages to install:
dendrocat requires the following packages to function:
- regions 0.3.dev662 or later
- astrodendro 0.2.0 or later
- radio-beam 0.3.1.dev335 or later
dendrocat can be cloned from its repository on GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/cmcclellan1010/dendrocat.git
cd dendrocat
python setup.py install- Issue Tracker: github.com/cmcclellan1010/dendrocat/issues
- Source Code: github.com/cmcclellan1010/dendrocat
This project is Copyright (c) B. Connor McClellan and licensed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license. This package is based upon the Astropy package template which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the licenses folder for more information.