Observations¶

class beast.observationmodel.observations.Observations(inputFile, desc=None)[source]¶

A generic class that interfaces observation catalog in a standardized way

Attributes:	inputFile: str catalog source file filters: sequence(str) list of filter names (internal standards) desc: str, optional description of the observations badvalue: float, optional value that tags a bad measurement that should not be used in the fitting. nObs: int number of observations in the catalog

Generate a data interface object

Attributes Summary

Methods Summary

`__call__`(self)	Calling the object will show info
`enumobs`(self)
`getErrors`(self, num, filters)
`getFilters`(self)
`getFlux`(self, num)	returns the flux of an observation from the number of counts
`getFluxerr`(self, num)	returns the error on the flux of an observation from the number of counts (not used in the analysis)
`getMags`(self, num, filters)
`getObs`(self[, num])	returns the flux
`info`(self)	Prints some information about the catalog
`iterobs`(self)	yield getObs
`keys`(self)	Returns dataset content names
`readData`(self)	read the dataset from the original source file
`setBadValue`(self, val)
`setDescription`(self, txt)
`setFilters`(self, filters)

Attributes Documentation

Methods Documentation

getFlux(self, num)[source]¶: returns the flux of an observation from the number of counts

getFluxerr(self, num)[source]¶: returns the error on the flux of an observation from the number of counts (not used in the analysis)