Display spectra and estimate their redshifts.
Project description
REDMOST
REDshift Measurement Of SpecTra is a Qt6 Graphical User Interface (GUI) to do spectroscopic redshift measurements for 1D spectra.
If redrock is correcly installed, it cat be used as a backend to measure the redshift.
Installation
This is a python program based on Qt6 and supports both PyQt6 and PySide6 backends. Since it is a good practice to not mess up the system-wide python environment, you should install this program in a virtual environment. If you don't have a virtual environment yet, you can create one with the command
python -m venv env_name
For example, to create a virtual environment called "astro", you can use the command
python -m venv astro
and you can activate it with
. astro/bin/activate
From this GIT repository
To install the bleeding edge version, first clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/mauritiusdadd/redmost.git
cd redmost
and then run pip specifyng which Qt backend you want to use:
- for PyQt6:
pip install .[pyqt6]
- for PySide6:
pip install .[pyside6]
Install third party backends
Redmost can use modular backends to measure the redshift, although only redrock is currently supported. Please check and follow the installation instructions of the single packages!
- redrock backend: https://github.com/desihub/redrock
Run
To run the program just run the command redmost
in a terminal
Aknowledgemnts
If you use this software for your work, please consider to include a citation to 10.5281/zenodo.10817884 Also remember to aknowledge:
- astropy: https://www.astropy.org/acknowledging.html
- specutils: https://github.com/astropy/specutils/blob/main/specutils/CITATION
- redrock: https://github.com/desihub/redrock (if you use the redrock backend)
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