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DESI-UR / VAST

Void Analysis Software Toolkit

https://vast.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Additional stats #76

Open kadglass opened 2 years ago

kadglass commented 2 years ago

Each void-finding algorithm should compute and print the following stats to the user:

comoving distance limits
solid angle of the sky (in steradians)
number of galaxies (in volume-limited catalog, wall galaxy count, and field galaxy count)
average galaxy density

kadglass commented 2 years ago

In fact, it would be nice to have this info (plus the cosmology used, input redshift limits, magnitude cut, etc. - essentially, all of the "parameters") saved into a header that is associated with the output files.

Therefore, we might want to change the output format of the algorithms to produce fits files, where we can store this information in the header, and then have different channels for each of the various output tables (that are currently saved as separate files).