lacosmic¶

lacosmic is a Python package to remove cosmic rays from an astronomical image using the L.A.Cosmic algorithm. The algorithm is based on Laplacian edge detection and is described in van Dokkum (2001; PASP 113, 1420).

Requirements¶

lacosmic has the following requirements:

Python 3.9 or later
NumPy 1.22 or later
Scipy 1.7.2 or later
Astropy 5.0 or later

pytest-astropy (0.10 or later) is required to run the test suite.

Installation¶

The latest released (stable) version of lacosmic can be installed with pip:

pip install lacosmic

User Documentation¶

Package to remove cosmic rays from an astronomical image using the L.A.Cosmic algorithm (van Dokkum 2001; PASP 113, 1420).

Functions¶

`lacosmic`(data, contrast, cr_threshold, ...)	Remove cosmic rays from an astronomical image using the L.A.Cosmic algorithm.
`test`(**kwargs)	Run the tests for the package.

Changelog¶

Changelog

Developer Documentation¶

Package Release Instructions