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PolSpectra

PolSpectra is a Python3 package for radio astronomy. Its purpose is to facilitate the creation, access, and manipulation of full Stokes spectra of radio sources in the PolSpectra format, as defined by Van Eck et al. 2022 (in prep).

The package defines the polarizationspectra class, which serves as a wrapper around an Astropy Table and ensures that all the necessary columns are included.

Installation

This package is available through PyPi and can be installed through pip in the usual way: pip install Polspectra.

Alternatively, it can be downloaded (here) and either installed using setup.py (python setup.py install) or included in your Python path manually.

Dependencies: astropy, numpy

Package Usage

After installation, the package can be imported in the usual way: import polspectra

The main functions are listed here.

Some discussion of the concepts underlying the PolSpectra format, and some example code, can be found here.