API Overview

Before moving to the recipes themselves, an overview of the Application Programming Interface (API) used by the (offline) software tools is presented. PAHdb’s (offline) software tools follow largely the same API for both the IDL and Python implementations. The API is designed around an object-oriented paradigm where each class handles a distinct aspect of the spectroscopic data and/or models. Each of these aspects is discussed in turn.

• Getting started
• Accessing data
• Working with geometry data
• Working with laboratory data
• Working with transition data
• Using emission models
• Creating spectra
• Working with spectra
• Working with observational data
• Spectroscopic fitting
• Working with fitted data
• Working outside the classes