ctapipe

Low-level data processing pipeline software for CTA (the Cherenkov Telescope Array)

This is code is a prototype data processing framework and is under rapid development. It is not recommended for production use unless you are an expert or developer!

• Code: https://github.com/cta-observatory/ctapipe
• Docs: https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/
• Slack: Contact Karl Kosack for invite

Citing this software

If you use this software for a publication, please cite the Zenodo Record for the specific version you are using and our latest publication.

You can find all ctapipe Zenodo records here: List of ctapipe Records on Zenodo.

There is also a Zenodo DOI always pointing to the latest version:

At this point, our latest publication is the 2023 ICRC proceeding, which you can cite using this bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{ctapipe-icrc-2023,
  author = {Linhoff, Maximilian and Beiske, Lukas and Biederbeck, Noah and Fröse, Stefan and Kosack, Karl and Nickel, Lukas},
  title = {ctapipe -- Prototype Open Event Reconstruction Pipeline for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
  usera = {for the CTA Consortium and Observatory},
  doi = {10.22323/1.444.0703},
  booktitle = {Proceedings, 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference},
  year=2023,
  volume={444},
  number={703},
  location={Nagoya, Japan},
}

Installation for Users

ctapipe and its dependencies may be installed using the Anaconda or Miniconda package system. We recommend creating a conda virtual environment first, to isolate the installed version and dependencies from your main environment (this is optional).

The latest version of ctapipe can be installed via:

mamba install -c conda-forge ctapipe

or via:

pip install ctapipe

Note: to install a specific version of ctapipe take look at the documentation here.

Note: mamba is a C++ reimplementation of conda and can be found here.

Note this is pre-alpha software and is not yet stable enough for end-users (expect large API changes until the first stable 1.0 release).

Developers should follow the development install instructions found in the documentation.