gaussian_smooth

specutils.manipulation.gaussian_smooth(spectrum, stddev)

Smooth a Spectrum1D instance along the spectral axis based on a astropy.convolution.Gaussian1DKernel.

Parameters:

spectrumSpectrum1D

The spectrum object to which the smoothing will be applied.

stddevnumber

The stddev of the kernel, in pixels, as defined in astropy.convolution.Gaussian1DKernel

Returns:

spectrumSpectrum1D

Output Spectrum1D which is copy of the one passed in with the updated flux.

Raises:

ValueError

In the case that stddev is not the correct type or value.