catalog - Source catalogs

Introduction

gammapy.catalog provides utilities to work with source catalogs in general, and catalogs relevant for gamma-ray astronomy specifically.

If you just want to browse catalog information, you can visit http://gamma-sky.net .

Available catalogs

Support for the following catalogs is available:

Source catalog registry:
   name                       description                      sources
--------- ---------------------------------------------------- -------
     hgps H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey (HGPS) source catalog      78
gamma-cat                 An open catalog of gamma-ray sources     166
     3fgl                      LAT 4-year point source catalog    3034
     1fhl      First Fermi-LAT Catalog of Sources above 10 GeV     514
     2fhl                LAT second high-energy source catalog     360
     3fhl                 LAT third high-energy source catalog    1556
     2hwc               2HWC catalog from the HAWC observatory      40

More catalogs can be added to gammapy.catalog, and users can also add support for their favourite catalog in their Python script or package, by following the examples how the built-in catalogs are implemented.

How it works

This section provides some information how gammapy.catalog works. In principle, to use it, you don’t have to know how it’s implemented, and just follow the examples in the sections below. In practice, if you want to work with catalogs via gammapy.catalog or directly, it really helps if you spend a little time and learn about Astropy tables.

Catalog data is stored as an astropy.table.Table object, with the information for each source in a astropy.table.Row. In gammapy.catalog we have implemented a base class gammapy.catalog.SourceCatalog that stores the astropy.table.Table in the table attribute, and a base gammapy.catalog.SourceCatalogObject class that can extract the astropy.table.Row data into a Python dictionary in the data attribute and then provides conveniences to work with the data for a given source.

For every given concrete catalog, two classes (“catalog” and “source/object”) are needed. E.g. for the Fermi-LAT 3FGL catalog, there are the gammapy.catalog.SourceCatalog3FGL and the gammapy.catalog.SourceCatalogObject3FGL classes.

The SourceCatalog class mostly handles data file loading, as well as source access by integer row index or source name. The SourceCatalogObject class implements in __str__ a pretty-printed version of source.data, so that you can print(source), as well as factory methods to create Gammapy objects such as gammapy.spectrum.models.SpectralModel or gammapy.image.models.SkySpatialModel or gammapy.spectrum.FluxPoints representing spatial and spectral models, or spectral points, which you can then print or plot or use for simulation and analysis.

Getting Started

Let’s start by checking which catalogs are available:

>>> from gammapy.catalog import source_catalogs
>>> source_catalogs.info()
Source catalog registry:
Name Description Loaded
---- ----------- ------
3fgl description     no
2fhl description     no

You can access source_catalogs like a dict, i.e. load catalogs by name:

>>> catalog = source_catalogs['3fgl']
>>> catalog.table # To access the underlying astropy.table.Table

Note that importing source_catalogs did not load catalogs from disk, they are lazy-loaded on access via [name] and then cached for the duration of your Python session.

You can get an object representing one source of interest by source name or by row index:

>>> source = catalog['3FGL J0004.7-4740']  # access by source name
>>> source = catalog[15]  # access by row index

The source object contains all of the information in the data attribute:

>>> source.data['RAJ2000']
1.1806999
>>> source.data['CLASS1']
'fsrq '
>>> source.pprint()
# print all info on this source in a readable format

TODO: continue here describing how to access spectra, finder charts, … once that’s implemented.

Using gammapy.catalog

For more advanced use cases please go to the tutorial notebooks:

The following pages describe gammapy.catalog in more detail:

Reference/API

gammapy.catalog Package

Source catalogs.

Functions

coordinate_iau_format(coordinate, ra_digits) Coordinate format as an IAU source designation.
dec_iau_format(dec, digits) Declination part of an IAU source designation.
ra_iau_format(ra, digits) Right Ascension part of an IAU source designation.
select_sky_box(table, lon_lim, lat_lim[, …]) Select sky positions in a box.
select_sky_circle(table, lon_cen, lat_cen, …) Select sky positions in a circle.
skycoord_from_table(table) Make SkyCoord from lon, lat columns in Table.

Classes

GammaCatDataCollection(data_index) Data store for gamma-cat.
GammaCatResource(source_id, reference_id[, …]) Reference for a single resource in gamma-cat.
GammaCatResourceIndex(resources) Resource index for gamma-cat.
SourceCatalog(table[, source_name_key, …]) Generic source catalog.
SourceCatalog1FHL([filename]) Fermi-LAT 1FHL source catalog.
SourceCatalog2FHL([filename]) Fermi-LAT 2FHL source catalog.
SourceCatalog2HWC([filename]) HAWC 2HWC catalog.
SourceCatalog3FGL([filename]) Fermi-LAT 3FGL source catalog.
SourceCatalog3FHL([filename]) Fermi-LAT 3FHL source catalog.
SourceCatalogGammaCat([filename]) Gammacat open TeV source catalog.
SourceCatalogHGPS([filename, hdu]) HESS Galactic plane survey (HGPS) source catalog.
SourceCatalogLargeScaleHGPS(table[, …]) Gaussian band model.
SourceCatalogObject(data[, data_extended]) Source catalog object.
SourceCatalogObject1FHL(data[, data_extended]) One source from the Fermi-LAT 1FHL catalog.
SourceCatalogObject2FHL(data[, data_extended]) One source from the Fermi-LAT 2FHL catalog.
SourceCatalogObject2HWC(data[, data_extended]) One source from the HAWC 2HWC catalog.
SourceCatalogObject3FGL(data[, data_extended]) One source from the Fermi-LAT 3FGL catalog.
SourceCatalogObject3FHL(data[, data_extended]) One source from the Fermi-LAT 3FHL catalog.
SourceCatalogObjectGammaCat(data[, …]) One object from the gamma-cat source catalog.
SourceCatalogObjectHGPS(data[, data_extended]) One object from the HGPS catalog.
SourceCatalogObjectHGPSComponent(data) One Gaussian component from the HGPS catalog.
SourceCatalogObjectSNRcat(data[, data_extended]) One source from the SNRcat catalog.
SourceCatalogRegistry() Source catalog registry.
SourceCatalogSNRcat([cache]) SNRcat supernova remnant catalog.

Variables

source_catalogs Source catalog registry.