""" SDSS Galaxy Colors ------------------ The function :func:`fetch_sdss_galaxy_colors` used below actually queries the SDSS CASjobs server for the colors of the 50,000 galaxies. Below we extract the :math:`u - g` and :math:`g - r` colors for 5000 objects, and scatter-plot the results. """ # Author: Jake VanderPlas # License: BSD # The figure is an example from astroML: see http://astroML.github.com from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from astroML.datasets import fetch_sdss_galaxy_colors #------------------------------------------------------------ # Download data data = fetch_sdss_galaxy_colors() data = data[::10] # truncate for plotting # Extract colors and spectral class ug = data['u'] - data['g'] gr = data['g'] - data['r'] spec_class = data['specClass'] galaxies = (spec_class == 'GALAXY') qsos = (spec_class == 'QSO') #------------------------------------------------------------ # Prepare plot fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.set_xlim(-0.5, 2.5) ax.set_ylim(-0.5, 1.5) ax.plot(ug[galaxies], gr[galaxies], '.', ms=4, c='b', label='galaxies') ax.plot(ug[qsos], gr[qsos], '.', ms=4, c='r', label='qsos') ax.legend(loc=2) ax.set_xlabel('$u-g$') ax.set_ylabel('$g-r$') plt.show()