History

0.2.8 (unreleased)

  • No changes yet.

0.2.7 (2015-09-28)

  • Fix issues #92 #94 #96 #97 #100
  • Add support for reading per-exposure flux calibration and correction vectors.
  • Add plot functions for per-fiber data vs fiber number or focal-plane position.
  • Add a plug_map attribute to spPlate, spFrame, spCFrame.
  • FrameFile infers the spectrograph index and whether flux calibration has been applied.
  • bossdata infers MJD when possible.
  • bossplot option “–camera” renamed to “–band”.

0.2.6 (2015-08-05)

  • Fix issues #67 #74 #86
  • The camera arg to SpecFile.get_valid_data (and related methods) should now be b1, b2, r1, r2 instead of blue or red.
  • New options for the get_valid_data methods: use_ivar, use_loglam, fiducial_grid.

0.2.5 (2015-07-06)

  • Fix issues #27 #28 #63 #64 #68
  • New command-line options include:
  • bossplot: –platefile, –flux-range, –wlen-range, –wdisp-range, –label-pos, –no-grid, –show-invalid
  • bossfetch: –platefile
  • Adds support for spPlate files and platelist metadata.
  • Adds command-line options to customize bossplot axes, add labels and grids, and display invalid data.
  • General documentation cleanup.
  • Better error handling in bossplot.

0.2.4 (2015-06-29)

  • Fix issues #11 #36 #41 #43 #45 #50
  • New command-line options include:
  • bossfetch: –plate-name, –mjd-name, –fiber-name
  • bosscatalog: –quasar-catalog, –quasar-catalog-name
  • The main new functionality is support for querying the quasar catalog, using different data sources, and built-in defaults for any of the four environment variables that is not set.

0.2.3 (2015-06-22)

  • Fix issues #2 #10 #16 #18 #19 #21 #24
  • New command-line options include:
  • bossfetch: –globus, –dry-run
  • bossplot: –save-data
  • bossquery: –sort
  • The main new library functionality is support for using wavelengths and dispersions encoded as “trace sets” in spFrame files via bossdata.plate.TraceSet.

0.2.2 (2015-06-15)

  • Really fix issues #9 #13.
  • Add support for finding and fetching spFrame and spCFrame files (#17).

0.2.1 (2015-06-13)

  • Fix issues #9 #12 #13

0.2.0 (2015-06-09)

  • Fix issues #3 #5 #6
  • Add support for accessing subtracted sky flux to the spec module and bossplot script.
  • This version breaks backwards compatiblity with 0.1.0 since the previous $BOSS_SAS_ROOT environment variable is now named $BOSS_SAS_PATH and has the instrument name (usually boss) appended.
  • bash users can update by replacing export BOSS_SAS_ROOT=/sas/dr12 with export BOSS_SAS_PATH=/sas/dr12/boss in their .bashrc file.

0.1.0 (2015-05-24)

  • First release on PyPI.