VELPLOT is a software package that can be used to display quasar absorption line systems in velocity scale. The systems can be displayed either in the form of a still or interactive figure. The program was built by Vincent Dumont and is part of the Astroquasar group’s toolset available in our GitLab group .

Installation

The easiest way to install the software is using the PyPI package manager as follows:

pip install velplot

The above command will install all the required dependencies (see list below) along with the main software. More information about the package can be found in the pypi webpage .

astropy
matplotlib
numpy
plotly
scipy
pyyaml

License Agreement

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Vincent Dumont

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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SOFTWARE.

Reporting issues

Submit a ticket

If you find any bugs when running this program, please make sure to report them by clicking on the above link and submit a ticket on the software’s official Gitlab repository.