VIPERS Survey

This class is dedicated to handling observations from VIPERS galaxy redshift survey, see Garilli et al. 2014.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...562A..23G

class GalaxySurveyVIPERS.GalaxySurveyVIPERS[source]

The class GalaxySurveyVIPERS is dedicated to handling VIPERS survey.

class GalaxySurveyVIPERS.GalaxySurveyVIPERS(redshift_catalog='VIPERS_W14_summary_v1.fits')[source]
Loads the environement proper to the VIPERS survey :
  • Defines all the proper paths in the database,
  • Opens the catalog,
Parameters:redshift_catalog – name of the VIPERS redshift catalog (path to the fits file)
computeLineLuminosity(line, distanceCorrection)[source]

computes the line luminosities for the line list given. :param catalog: fits catalog containing redshift, EBV and line fluxes :param line: