Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: nway
Version: 3.6
Summary: Probabilistic Cross-Identification of Astronomical Sources
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nway/
Author: Johannes Buchner
Author-email: johannes.buchner.acad@gmx.com
License: AGPLv3 (see LICENSE file)
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Dist: argparse
Requires-Dist: astropy
Requires-Dist: healpy
Requires-Dist: joblib
Requires-Dist: matplotlib
Requires-Dist: numpy
Requires-Dist: progressbar-latest
Requires-Dist: scipy

nway
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nway is a source cross-matching tool for arbitrarily many astronomical catalogues. 

Features
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* Bayesian match probabilities based on astronomical sky coordinates (RA, DEC)
* Works with arbitrarily many catalogues
* Can handle varying errors
* Can incorporate additional prior information, such as the magnitude or color distributions of the sources to match
* Works accurately and fast in small areas and all-sky catalogues

Documentation
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See the manual in the doc/ folder, https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/nway/raw/master/doc/nway-manual.pdf

A full worked example with demo catalogues is included.

Installation
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The easiest way to install nway is with pip: 

	$ pip install nway

Add --user if you do not have admin privileges. Alternatively, 
download the source code and run "python setup.py install".

nway uses the following python packages:

* numpy, scipy, matplotlib
* astropy
* progressbar or progressbar-latest
* argparse
* joblib
* healpy

nway should work both with Python 3 and Python 2. 

Reporting issues
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Please file an issue on Github if you have any problems.

Citing nway correctly
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Please cite Salvato et al (in prep.). https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10711

Licence
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This program is free and open-source software, 
licensed under AGPLv3 (see LICENSE and COPYING files).
Written by Johannes Buchner (C) 2013-2017







