The red-sequence matched-filter Probabilistic Percolation (redMaPPer) Cluster Finder

This is the open-source, python version of the red-sequence matched-filter Probabilistic Percolation (redMaPPer) cluster finder, originally described in Rykoff et al. (2014), with updates described in Rozo et al. (2015) and Rykoff et al. (2016).

Installation

Installing the code is easy, and is supported on Python 2.7 and 3.5+.

cd redmapper
python setup.py install

Tests

Once installed, it is important to run all the tests:

cd redmapper/tests
nosetests

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue.

Dependencies

The following modules are required:

• astropy
• matplotlib
• nose
• pyyaml
• fitsio
• esutil
• numpy
• healpy
• scipy
• future
• healsparse

How-To

Please see the redMaPPer How-To for information about running redMaPPer on your data.