Tools

Software tools useful to the high-redshift community, especially for Hubble and JWST data analysis. The goal is not to be comprehensive but rather to list tools we are actively using and recommend.

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Proposal Preparation

• https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-other-tools

• eMPT NIRSpec MSA Planning Tool https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10957

Data Reduction & Processing

• JWST pipeline: JDox • readthedocs • Github

• CEERS NIRCam image reduction notebooks

• Grizli image and spectroscopy processing

  • msaexp NIRSpec MSA spectral extractions using the JWST pipeline

Data Visualization & Analysis

• JWST Data Analysis

• FITSMap

• Morpheus

Object Detection, Photometry, & Morpholoty

• Source Extractor

• Astropy Photutils

• The Tractor

• The Farmer

• TPHOT

• GALFIT

• Galapagos

• Forcepho

• morphofit

Stellar Population Synthesis Models

• BPASS

• FSPS

other SED templates

• HOT

• Synthesizer

• Larson+ (coming soon)

Photoionization & Nebular Reprocessing

• CLOUDY

• MAPPINGS

SED Fitting / Spectral Fitting

• EAZY 

• LePhare

• BAGPIPES (+ BPASS templates)

• BEAGLE

• Prospector

• Dense Basis

• piXedfit

• pPXF

• pipe3D

• Firefly

Spectral Emission Lines

• NIST database

• Table of Galaxy Emission lines from 700Å to 11,000Å

• JWST ERS TEMPLATES: common emission lines

• near-IR Hydrogen Balmer lines – Gemini

Simulated JWST Galaxy Observations

• JAGUAR

• CEERS

  • CEERS analysis

Simulated Galaxy Catalogs

• FlatHUB

• UniverseMachine

• EGG

Simulating JWST Data

• NIRCam

  • MIRAGE

  • Guitarra

  • PhoSim

  • pyNRC

• MIRI

  • MIRISim

Python Package Citations

• Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013; Price-Whelan et al. 2018) 

• NumPy (van der Walt et al. 2011)

• SciPy (Virtanen et al. 2020) 

• Matplotlib (Hunter 2007)

• photutils (Bradley et al. 2022)