Other Packages

PyDIS is not the only game in town for analyzing astronomical spectra using python, and is far behind other tools in some areas! Here is a list of other known packages that are related to this:

• specreduce: reduction software for optical spectra, from raw data to 1-d spec
• pyspeckit: analysis and line/feature fitting toolkit for reduced spectra
• PHEW: Python Equivalent Width fitting tool, using pyspeckit as backend and Monte Carlo for fitting
• pyspectrograph: tasks for modeling a spectrograph end-to-end, and analyze the raw data. Very powerful, but complex
• pysalt: Python/Pyraf package for reducing and analyzing SALT data
• specultils: Affiliate package for astropy, plotting and some analysis of reduced spectra
• pysynphot: STSci package for generating synthetic photometry from spectra
• specviz: STSci package in development for visualizing 1-D spectra
• spectral-cube: reading and writing spectral data cubes