""" RR-Lyrae Magnitudes ------------------- This example downloads and plots the colors of RR Lyrae stars along with those of the non-variable stars. Several of the classification examples in the book figures use this dataset. """ # 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 astroML.datasets import fetch_rrlyrae_combined #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # get data and split into training & testing sets X, y = fetch_rrlyrae_combined() X = X[-5000:] y = y[-5000:] stars = (y == 0) rrlyrae = (y == 1) #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot the results ax = plt.axes() ax.plot(X[stars, 0], X[stars, 1], '.', ms=5, c='b', label='stars') ax.plot(X[rrlyrae, 0], X[rrlyrae, 1], '.', ms=5, c='r', label='RR-Lyrae') ax.legend(loc=3) ax.set_xlabel('$u-g$') ax.set_ylabel('$g-r$') ax.set_xlim(0.7, 1.4) ax.set_ylim(-0.2, 0.4) plt.show()