Kelle Cruz

Fit models to 2D scatter plot Tutorial

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it a straight line/polynomial/power law/gaussian chi^2 min to a 2D scatter plot. - fit a Sersic profile to a galaxy image EG: Markwardt fitting table, matplotlib, modeling - NADIA. +...

1) finding coordinates and getting images - will need a bit more meat. 2) MAKE STAND ALONE: using coordinates and table to match and compare catalogs. 3) astroplan -- needs...

[Discussion] How to deal with environment mgmt problem

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Picking up convo started by [@adrn on twitter](https://twitter.com/adrianprw/status/964592031602528258): regarding [Learning to program is getting harder](http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html) blog post. The gist is that "the barrier between using a computer and programming a...

Hello from the Astropy Project! As part of a recent audit of Astropy Affiliated Packages, we noticed that this package is active, but has not been released to PyPI in...

Bug in wcs1d-fits reader and flux_unit

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I'm pretty sure there's a bug in the wcs1d-fits reader. I have some spectra that have `BUNIT = erg/A/s/cm2`. This is not able to be parsed into `erg / (Angstrom...

Make an MRT reader for spectra

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Some folks publish their spectra in AAS Machine Readable Table format. We could make a reader. Here's an example dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/14976898

identify-tabular-fits more strict JWST test

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Currently, `tabular-fits` won't identify on any spectrum with TELESCOP=JWST. This is far too broad since folks are re-reducing JWST data and outputting tabular-fits format spectra. I've modified the identifier to...

Update docs to recommend use of Spectrum instead of Spectrum1D?

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I thought that the class name has been "changed" to be `Spectrum` instead of `Spectrum1D` but I don't see any evidence of that in the change log. Am I misremembering?...

I see that [Spectrum.plot](https://specutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/specutils.Spectrum1D.html#specutils.Spectrum1D.plot) method exists but is not used in the documentation; pyplot is used instead. See [Basic Spectrum Creation](https://specutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/spectrum1d.html#basic-spectrum-creation). Is this on purpose? I assume we should be...

Make ASDF writer

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Spectrum objects can be written out as ASDF files but there's currently no writer. A writer should be written and documented.