""" NASA Sloan Atlas ---------------- This shows some visualizations of the data from the NASA SDSS Atlas """ # Author: Jake VanderPlas # License: BSD # The figure is an example from astroML: see http://astroML.github.com import numpy as np from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from astropy.visualization import hist from astroML.datasets import fetch_nasa_atlas data = fetch_nasa_atlas() #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot the RA/DEC in an area-preserving projection RA = data['RA'] DEC = data['DEC'] # convert coordinates to degrees RA -= 180 RA *= np.pi / 180 DEC *= np.pi / 180 ax = plt.axes(projection='mollweide') plt.scatter(RA, DEC, s=1, c=data['Z'], cmap=plt.cm.copper, edgecolors='none', linewidths=0) plt.grid(True) plt.title('NASA Atlas Galaxy Locations') cb = plt.colorbar(cax=plt.axes([0.05, 0.1, 0.9, 0.05]), orientation='horizontal', ticks=np.linspace(0, 0.05, 6)) cb.set_label('redshift') #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot the r vs u-r color-magnitude diagram absmag = data['ABSMAG'] u = absmag[:, 2] r = absmag[:, 4] plt.figure() ax = plt.axes() plt.scatter(u - r, r, s=1, lw=0, c=data['Z'], cmap=plt.cm.copper) plt.colorbar(ticks=np.linspace(0, 0.05, 6)).set_label('redshift') plt.xlim(0, 3.5) plt.ylim(-10, -24) plt.xlabel('u-r') plt.ylabel('r') #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot a histogram of the redshift plt.figure() hist(data['Z'], bins='knuth', histtype='stepfilled', ec='k', fc='#F5CCB0') plt.xlabel('z') plt.ylabel('N(z)') plt.show()