From 0.4.0 to 0.5.0

Concerns

What happened

funcFit

New functionality
  • Now supports n-dimensional (nD) fitting

  • Tutorial for nD fitting added

  • Obtain confidence intervals via steppar and errorConfInterval methods

modelSuite

New models
  • Added a spectral model based on Gaussian lines (LLGauss).

  • Added a model to fitting the coordinates of a a Kepler ellipse (KeplerEllipseModel)

pyasl

New routines
  • Ported baryvel from IDL.

  • A wrapper for numpy’s Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

  • A function to apply Doppler shift to a spectrum.

  • A function to apply rotational broadening to a spectrum.

  • Ported unred method from IDL.

  • Convert between flux units and photons number.

  • Introduced a smooth function for smoothing 1d data.