MACSS

Part I: Catalog data exploration and prepration

Goals: explore the Rubin catalog data provided, and write some functions that will prepare catalog data for later analysis.

If you have run the installation, you should have a directory called macss/data off you your home directory. It contains some data we will be using.

Open the notebook nb/Project_Part1.ipynb to find a notebook you can work on this first part of the project in.

If you want to see what things should look like, you can have a look:

1. in the notebook 00_ExploreFluxes.ipynb to see examples of computing magnitudes and colors.

Specifics: The Rubin catalog data provides several different object fluxes, rather than magnitudes, and is does not account for the redenning cause by galactic dust. You will need to:

1. investigate the contents of the Rubin object catalog,
2. convert fluxes and flux errors to magnitudes and magnitude errors,
3. account for galactic redenning,
4. convert from magnitudes to colors.

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