Interactive Mode Notebooks

We present some notebooks demonstrating usage of RAIL in interactive mode.

Getting Started

There are two recommended starting points:

  1. If you just want to get some photometric redshifts, then Using Photometry to Estimate Photometric Redshifts should cover most of of what you need.

  2. If you are looking for a more general introduction to all of RAIL, start with Estimating Photometric Redshifts with RAIL Stages and Comparing Results for Different Parameters.

If you’d like to go even more in-depth into creating data, take a look at Exploring the Effects of Degraders. For a less-detailed overview of a full RAIL workflow, there’s the Goldenspike notebook.

Exploring Further

There are many more notebooks that you can explore, if you’re looking for something specific. They are split up into four main categories:

  • Core Examples: These notebooks provide examples of some of the utilities and base functionalities of RAIL.

  • Creation Examples: These notebooks cover how to create realistic simulated photometric data with RAIL.

  • Estimation Examples: These notebooks show how to use the various estimation algorithms that are currently a part of RAIL.

  • Evaluation Examples: These notebooks cover how to use the evaluation algorithms that are included with RAIL to get metrics on how well the estimated photometric redshifts represent the true redshifts.