This package contains functions useful for scientific programming, with a focus on astronomical research. The documentation details everything that is available, but some example tasks that can be handled are:

• Calculate absorption profiles for various ions observed in astrophysical environments.
• Fit a smooth continuum to a spectrum with many emission or absorption features.
• Find the expected broad-band magnitudes given a spectral energy distribution.

It requires NumPy, PyFits, ATpy and Astropy to install. Matplotlib and SciPy are also required for full functionality.

The best way to install is by using pip:

pip install barak

(You may need to put a sudo in front of this). For this to work you need to have pip installed. This method allows for easy uninstallation.

You can also simply download the tarball from the PyPI website, unpack it and then do:

python setup.py install

To run the tests you need py.test installed. Then run:

py.test barak

from the barak/ directory created by the install commands above.

The latest stable package can be downloaded from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Barak. The development version can be downloaded from here.

Documentation is found here: http://nhmc.github.io/Barak/

Feel free to email me if you have any questions:

neilcrighton .at. gmail .dot. com