HSTaXe is a Python package to provide a uniform process to perform spectral extraction for the Hubble Space Telescope. HSTaXe supports all slitless spectroscopy modes provided by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
The core hstaxe is written in ANSI C and is highly cross-platform by
leveraging CFITSIO, GSL, and WCSLIB, which have been successfully
employed under Linux, Solaris, and MacOS X.
HSTaXe is the successor to aXe, a similar package written on PyRAF/IRAF.
To install the latest release of hstaxe, we recommend the following steps::
conda create --name hstaxe-env "python>=3.8, <3.11"
conda activate hstaxe-env
conda install gsl cfitsio make automake autoconf libtool pkg-config -y
conda install wcstools -c https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/ --override-channels -y
pip install hstaxe --no-cache-dir
For additional installation instructions, including instructions on installing older or development versions of hstaxe, visit our full documentation: https://hstaxe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hstaxe/installing.html
Example notebooks can also be found on our full documentation: https://hstaxe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hstaxe/examples.html
To run the notebooks, you will need to install jupyter::
pip install jupyter
