""" SDSS Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample -------------------------------- This figure shows photometric colors of the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy sample. """ # 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_sdss_specgals data = fetch_sdss_specgals() #------------------------------------------------------------ # 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') ax.grid() plt.scatter(RA, DEC, s=1, lw=0, c=data['z'], cmap=plt.cm.copper, vmin=0, vmax=0.4) plt.title('SDSS DR8 Spectroscopic Galaxies') cb = plt.colorbar(cax=plt.axes([0.05, 0.1, 0.9, 0.05]), orientation='horizontal', ticks=np.linspace(0, 0.4, 9)) cb.set_label('redshift') #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot the r vs u-r color-magnitude diagram u = data['modelMag_u'] r = data['modelMag_r'] rPetro = data['petroMag_r'] plt.figure() ax = plt.axes() plt.scatter(u - r, rPetro, s=1, lw=0, c=data['z'], cmap=plt.cm.copper, vmin=0, vmax=0.4) plt.colorbar(ticks=np.linspace(0, 0.4, 9)).set_label('redshift') plt.xlim(0.5, 5.5) plt.ylim(18, 12.5) plt.xlabel('u-r') plt.ylabel('rPetrosian') #------------------------------------------------------------ # plot a histogram of the redshift plt.figure() hist(data['z'], bins='knuth', histtype='stepfilled', ec='k', fc='#F5CCB0') plt.xlim(0, 0.4) plt.xlabel('z (redshift)') plt.ylabel('dN/dz(z)') plt.show()