SourceList

class mpdaf.sdetect.SourceList

Bases: list

Handles a list of mpdaf.sdetect.Source objects.

Methods Summary

from_path(path)	Read a SourceList object from the path of a directory containing source files.
write(name[, path, overwrite, fmt])	Create the directory and saves all sources files and the catalog file in this folder.

Methods Documentation

classmethod from_path(path)

Read a SourceList object from the path of a directory containing source files.

Parameters:

path : str

Directory containing mpdaf.sdetect.Source files

write(name, path='.', overwrite=True, fmt='default')

Create the directory and saves all sources files and the catalog file in this folder.

path/name.fits: catalog file (In FITS table, the maximum number of fields is 999. In this case, the catalog is saved as an ascci table).

path/name/nameNNNN.fits: source file (NNNN corresponds to the ID of the source)

Parameters:

name : str

Name of the catalog

path : str

path where the catalog will be saved.

overwrite : bool

Overwrite the catalog if it already exists

fmt : str, ‘working’ or ‘default’

Format of the catalog. The format differs for the LINES table.