aztools

aztools is a collection of python tools that I have been using over the years in the analysis of X-ray data.

The aztools package

The aztools folder contains the main python package, which contains three parts:

• lcurve.py defines a light curve object (LCurve), which a holder of the observed time series, and associated functions that manipulate it.
• sim.py defines the SimLC class for simulating light curves.
• misc.py contains many additional tools for doing different things. See the file for more details
• data.py contains many methods to process x-ray data from different missions and extract spectra and light curves

Most of the functionality in aztools.data, and some aztools.misc depend on having heasoftpy installed (the high energy software package from NASA Goddard https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/heasoft/).

Scripts

The src/scripts folder contains useful python and bash scripts. If installing aztools >= 0.2, these scripts will be automatically installed when doing pip install.

The simulations folder

This contains codes for checking the functionality of the aztools package. It focuses on the statistics testing rather than the code tests.

tests folder:

Simple unit tests for the aztools package

Installation

• With pip install aztools

The following python packages are needed to run aztools:

• numpy
• scipy
• astropy

and heasoftpy if using aztools.data

Documentation

See full documentation at readthedoc.