""" WMAP plotting with HEALPix -------------------------- This example uses the :func:`astromL.datasets.fetch_wmap_temperatures` functionality to download and plot the raw WMAP 7-year data. The visualization requires the `healpy `_ package to be installed. """ # 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 # warning: due to a bug in healpy, importing it before pylab can cause # a segmentation fault in some circumstances. import healpy as hp from astroML.datasets import fetch_wmap_temperatures #------------------------------------------------------------ # Fetch the wmap data wmap_unmasked = fetch_wmap_temperatures(masked=False) #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot the unmasked map fig = plt.figure(1) hp.mollview(wmap_unmasked, min=-1, max=1, title='Raw WMAP data', fig=1, cmap=plt.cm.jet, unit=r'$\Delta$T (mK)') plt.show()