Phosphorpy is python package to mine large photometric sky surveys. It is designed to allow to do common and regular task, which are done if large photometric data sets are used, in just few lines. The aim is to provide a simple interface to make such data sets and specially data set combination more accessible to the community.
These task are for example, cross-match different catalogs (photometric and astrometric), make basic selection, plotting results, simple image and/or light curves downloads.
All accessible data are publicly available and for the references, see the survey config file. This file includes the references to the corresponding publications.
Details are on the wiki page
Phosphorpy is available via Pypi and can be installed with pip
pip install Phosphorpy
Phosphorpy uses plenty of other packages to perform the queries, downloads and do the calculations.
- astropy
- astroquery
- matplotlib
- numpy
- numba
- pandas
- seaborn
- scikit-learn
- scipy
- urllib
- armapy
- holoviews (optional)
See example for an extended example, which includes the main functionalities of Phosphorpy.