[AstroPy] Cross matching two source lists

[Eduardo Bañados Torres]

Hi Thomas,

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but I'm using LSD to
cross-match huge catalogs (3pi of the sky), LSD is written in python
and is multi-thread! so is very fast (though the installation is not
that trivial).

The first line of the documentation is:

The Large Survey Database (LSD) is a framework for storing,
cross-matching, querying, and rapidly iterating through large survey
datasets (catalogs of >109 rows, >1 TB) on multi-core machines. It is
implemented in Python, written and maintained by Mario Juric
(mjuric@…).

all the information is here:
http://mwscience.net/trac/wiki/LargeSurveyDatabase

Well if you need more help or examples you can contact me

and yes.. I also think it would be nice to have a cross-matching
algorithm in astropy

Cheers,


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Erin Sheldon <erin.sheldon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Thomas Robitaille's message of Fri May 11 04:03:18 -0400 2012:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for a Python package that can do arbitrary and efficient
>> cross-matching of source lists, i.e. some kind of kd-tree that uses
>> spherical rather than euclidean distances. Is anyone aware of such a
>> package?
>
> Hi Thomas-
>
> The HTM module in esutil does this.
>
>    http://code.google.com/p/esutil/
>
>    http://code.google.com/p/esutil/source/browse/trunk/esutil/htm/__init__.py
>
> It indexes the sky using a Hierarchical Triangular Mesh, which is a
> quaternary tree.
>
> Example to find the closest match between two lists within an arcsecond:
>
>    from esutil import htm
>
>    h = htm.HTM()
>    maxrad=1.0/3600.0
>    m1,m2,radius = h.match(ra1,dec1,ra2,dec2,maxrad)
>
> m1 and m2 are index arrays for the matched pairs and radius is the
> match distance.  You can also allow more than one match.
>
> I hope this helps,
> -e
> --
> Erin Scott Sheldon
> Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Eduardo Bañados Torres