dyson

dyson is a package which takes spectra with similar inferred properties, and stacks their fitting residuals together. Spectra can be binned in arbitrary dimension.

The overall workflow is as follows:

1. define binning space, consisting of many hyperrectangular bins B
2. define a wavelength grid L, having an identical log-wavelength spacing to the data
3. For each galaxy G in a list, assign each spaxel S within to a bin B, and write out the assignment map to a file PLATEIFU-assign.fits
4. for each bin B, loop through list of galaxies G, and find spaxels S in G which fit in B. For each spaxel S: a) find the observed-frame stellar-continuum-fit residual belonging to S. Deredshift to rest-frame, and drizzle into L (along with weight vector) b) add rest-frame, rectified residual (and weight) to running total for bin c) add spaxel redshifts to running list d) write running flux sum, variance, and redshift list to a file BINNUM-accum.fits