
Welcome to the special documentation
Recent technological progress in high-contrast imaging has allowed the spectral characterization of directly imaged giant planet and brown dwarf companions at ever shorter angular separation from their host stars, hence opening a new avenue to study their formation, evolution, and composition.
In this context, special
is a Python package providing the tools to
analyse the low- to medium-resolution optical/IR spectra of these directly
imaged (sub)stellar companions. While some tools are specific to the SPEctral Characterization of directly ImAged Low-mass companions, the main features of special
can also be used in a more general way for the characterisation of any object with a measured spectrum, provided an input model or template grid.
Getting started
Package content
- special package
- Submodules
- special.chi module
- special.config module
- special.fits module
- special.mcmc_sampling module
- special.model_resampling module
- special.nested_sampling module
- special.spec_corr module
- special.spec_indices module
- special.template_fit module
- special.utils_mcmc module
- special.utils_nested module
- special.utils_spec module
- Module contents