🌈 A collaborative list of awesome software for spectroscopy. Feel free to contribute
- Astrophysics & astronomy spectra
- Atmospheric spectra
- General purpose
- Import-Export
- Infrared spectroscopy
- MDS spectroscopy
- UV/VIS spectroscopy
- Spectral inference
- Post-processing
- Databases
Other ways to find spectroscopy software:
- Explore GitHub #spectroscopy packages tagged with "spectroscopy".
- FOSS for Spectroscopy overlaps with this list in part, but presents the options in a slightly different format.
Generate or analyse astrophysics / astronomy spectra
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ChiantiPy : python package to calculate the radiative properties of astrophysical plasmas based on the CHIANTI atomic database
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HELIOS : GPU-Accelerated Radiative Transfer Code For Exoplanetary Atmospheres
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pyhdust : spectroscopic module of the pyhdust package for multi-technique astronomical data
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pyspeckit : a python spectroscopic toolkit for a wide variety of astronomical instruments.
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specutil : : a Python package for spectral analysis in astronomy
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radiospectra : radio spectra on solar physics from the sunpy package
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SpectroscoPyx : spectroscopy package of the PlasmaPy project
Atmosphere spectra, with line of sight
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Py4CAtS (software) : Python code for Computational ATmospheric Spectroscopy (HITRAN, Geisa)
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BART : Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer fitting code
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GARLIC (software) : Fortran line by line code
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MODTRAN (software) : software for MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission
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lowtran : LOWTRAN atmospheric absorption extinction, scatter and irradiance model--in Python and Matlab
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LBLRTM (software) : Line-by-line calculations of atmospheric fluxes and cooling rates
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libRadtran (software) : C / Fortran functions and programs for calculation of solar and thermal radiation in the Earth's atmosphere
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PyLBLRTM : Helper functions in reading/writing LBLRTM input/output files.
General spectral processing or analysis packages
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pyspectra : Python package for working with (hyper)spectral data
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rampy : a Python package for spectral data processing (IR, Raman, XAS...)
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scikit-spectra : Python pandas-based toolkit for explorative spectroscopy (IR, IV-vis, ...).
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Spectragryph (software) : optical spectroscopy software for UV-VIS, NIR, FTIR, Raman, fluorescence, LIBS, XRF data.
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SpectroChemPy : Processing, analysing and modelling spectroscopic data (IR, NMR, UV-vis, ...).
Import/export of spectral data
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Bruker OPUS Reader : Reading the binary OPUS files generated by Bruker spectrometers.
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specio : Interface to read hypersectral data
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lightr : Import UV/VIS spectral data and related metadata in R
Generate or analyse infrared spectra for combustion / plasma physics applications #infrared
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HAPI : HITRAN Application Programming Interface
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HELIOS-K : Ultrafast opacity calculator for exoplanetary atmospheres.
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RADIS : a fast line-by-line code for high-resolution infrared molecular spectra
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SpectraPlot (website) : online interface to HITRAN / HITEMP / NIST data
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HITRAN on the web (website) : online interface to HITRAN data
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RadISpeC : Radiation Interface for Matlab Spectroscopy Calculations. Uses HITRAN and HITEMP
- WrightTools (software) : a Python package for multidimensional spectroscopy
*Generate or analyse UV/VIS spectra (electronic states of atoms / molecules)
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SPECAIR (software) : software for calculation and fitting of UV/VIS plasma emission
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SPARTAN (software) : software for line-by-line radiative calculation of high-temperature, low pressure plasmas
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pavo : Perceptual Analysis, Visualization and Organization of Spectral Colour Data in R
and fitting
- Starfish : Tools for Flexible Spectroscopic Inference
general spectral analysis packages
- fityk : curve fitting (peak fitting) software
Databases for atomic and molecular spectroscopy
- Chianti: atomic line database
- NIST: atomic line database
- EXOMOL: Molecular Line Lists for Exoplanet and Other Atmospheres
- GEISA: atmospheric spectroscopic database
- HITRAN: high-resolution transmission molecular absorption databases for gases of the atmosphere (infrared)
- HITEMP: high temperature molecular spectroscopic database (infrared)
- GASPAR: high-temperature plasma radiation modelling (uv/vis/infrared)
Spectral visualizuation utilites
- react-emission-spectra set of react components for visualising atomic lines on the visible spectrum.