API Documentation

To get the options to use with the command-line program uvotgrism, use

uvotgrism --help

Information on the main interactive program can be found from the command-line by typing:

pydoc uvotpy.uvotgetspec.getSpec

• Release notes for UVOTPY
  • Notes to version 2.0
  • Notes to version 1.0
    • General
    • Main functions
    • Other uvotpy functions
    • Specialized functions are in modules
    • Files
    • 2013-Oct-31 Paul Kuin
    • 2013-May-23 Paul Kuin
    • March 2013: Flux calibration for the uv-grism
    • October 2012: Initial extension of flux calibration uv-grism
    • March 2012: An experimental coincidence loss correction
    • March 2012: An experimental coincidence loss correction
    • March 2012: discovery of variable sensitivity over face of uv clocked detector image
    • April 2012: predicting the uv grism exposure
    • April 2012: estimate of the zeroth order effective area
    • April 2012: determining the effective area in the uv detector
    • A. dated October 2013 Debian Squeeze4
    • B. dated March 2013
• uvotgetspec
  • Major functions
    • getSpec()
  • Key functions
    • coi_func()
    • findBackground()
    • get_radec()
    • makeXspecInput()
    • plan_obs_using_mags()
    • spec_curvature()
    • spectrumpixshift()
    • sum_Extimage()
• uvotio
  • Major functions
    • fileinfo()
    • rate2flux()
    • readFluxCalFile()
    • sensitivityCorrection()
    • writeSpectrum()
    • writeEffAreaFile()
    • write_rmf_file()
  • Key functions
    • XYSpecResp()
    • getZmxFlux()
    • kev2angstrom()
    • angstrom2kev()
    • updateResponseMatrix()
• uvotmisc
  • Convenience uvot grism fits header functions
    • get_curvatureCoef()
    • get_dispersion_from_header()
    • get_keyword_from_history()
    • get_sigCoef()
  • time conversions
    • UT2swift()
    • swtime2JD()
  • reading ascii tables
    • rdList()
    • rdTab()
  • other functions
    • uniq()
    • uvotrotvec()
    • encircled_energy()
    • polyfit_with_fixed_points()
• uvotplot
  • helper functions
    • Ellipse()
    • binplot()
    • contourpk()
    • maskEllipse()
    • plot_ellipsoid_regions()
    • waveAccPlot()
• uvotspec
  • Major functions
    • adjust_wavelength_manually()
    • flag_bad_manually()
    • plot_spectrum()
    • plotquality()
    • sum_PHAspectra()
  • Key functions
    • apply_shift()
    • check_flag()
    • complement_of_ranges()
    • plot_line_ids()
    • quality_flags_to_ranges()
• uvotwcs
  • Major functions
    • makewcshdr()
  • Other functions