Util#

Units Utility Functions#

QuantitySpline

Subclass of SciPy's UnivariateSpline, supporting AstroPy Quantity

angular_width

AstroPy units conversion equivalency for angular to linear distances

Data Utility Functions#

`core_cluster_list`	Return a list of cluster names, useable by gcfit.Observations
`hdf_view`	Write out a clean listing of a clusters contents.
`get_std_cluster_name`	Convert a given cluster name to a standardized version.
`get_cluster_path`	Based on a cluster name, return path to the corresponding cluster file.
`bibcode2bibtex`	Request the bibtex entry of this bibcode from the ADS.
`doi2bibtex`	Request the bibtex entry of this doi from crossref.
`bibcode2cite`	Request this bibcode from ADS and attempt to parse a cite from it.

Probability Utility Functions#

`gaussian`	Gaussian PDF, evaluated over x with mean mu and width sigma.
`RV_transform`	Transformation of a random variable over a function \(g=h^{-1}\).
`gaussian_likelihood`	Gaussian log-likelihood function.
`hyperparam_likelihood`	Gaussian log-likelihood function with marginalized hyperparameters.
`hyperparam_effective`	Compute the "effective" α_k scaling value for a given X_model.
`div_error`	Gaussian error propagation for division of two quantities with errors.
`trim_peaks`	Remove all "peaks" from distribution while maintaining normalization.

Mass Function Utilities#

Representation of an observational photometric field.