JWST Data Analysis Software Packages

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JWST post-pipeline data analysis tools are individual packages that will assist observers in viewing and analyzing their JWST data. The tools are generally written in Python and work with Astropy.

See also: JWST Post-Pipeline Data Analysis

Words in bold are GUI menus/
panels or data software packages; 
bold italics are buttons in GUI
tools or package parameters.

These packages have their own installation instructions, but most can be installed with standard pip commands. Table 1 provides links to further information about the tools. 


Table 1.  Software tools information

Package

Purpose

GitHub RepositoryDocumentation

Astropy

A community python library for astronomy

GitHub

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glue

A Python library to explore relationships within and among related datasets

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

ginga

A toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

photutils

Tools for detecting and performing photometry of astronomical sources

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

specutilsTools for performing spectroscopic analysis of astronomical sourcesGitHubReadTheDocs
specreduceA toolkit designed to reduce and calibrate spectroscopic data.GitHub

ReadTheDocs

astroimtools

Convenience tools for working with astronomical images

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

imexam

Tool for simple image examination, and plotting, with similar functionality to IRAF's imexamine

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

jdaviz

An interactive analysis tool designed to be integrated into a Jupyter notebook science workflow.

Included ImvizSpecviz, Cubeviz, and Mosviz:

  • Imviz is an image viewer with some similarities to ds9
  • Specviz is a 1D spectra analysis tool with similar functionality to IRAF's splot
  • Cubeviz is an analysis tool for 3D spectroscopy
  • Mosviz is an analysis and visualization tool for multi-object spectroscopy
GitHubReadTheDocs

asdf

Advanced Scientific Data Format is a next generation interchange format for scientific data 

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

gwcs

Generalized World Coordinate System tools for dealing with image and spectral geometries

GitHub

ReadTheDocs

synphot

Synthetic photometry toolkit for building model spectra and estimating count-rates

GitHub

ReadTheDocs




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    Updates for ERO and commissioning data public release. Added specreduce package.
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