SExtractor

class astropy.io.ascii.sextractor.SExtractor

Bases: astropy.io.ascii.core.BaseReader

Read a SExtractor file.

SExtractor is a package for faint-galaxy photometry. Bertin & Arnouts 1996, A&A Supp. 317, 393. http://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor

Example:

# 1 NUMBER
# 2 ALPHA_J2000
# 3 DELTA_J2000
# 4 FLUX_RADIUS
# 7 MAG_AUTO
1 32.23222 10.1211 0.8 1.2 1.4 18.1
2 38.12321 -88.1321 2.2 2.4 3.1 17.0

Note the skipped numbers since flux_radius has 3 columns. The three FLUX_RADIUS columns will be named FLUX_RADIUS, FLUX_RADIUS_1, FLUX_RADIUS_2

Methods Summary

read(table)
write([table])

Methods Documentation

read(table)

write(table=None)