Using Specviz in a Jupyter Notebook

Specviz is developed to fully support analyzing spectra within your existing Jupyter notebooks! To use Specviz, install jdaviz in your notebook’s python environment and add a new cell wherever you would like to use Specviz.

>>> # Import specviz
>>> from jdaviz import SpecViz
>>> # Instantiate an instance of Specviz
>>> specviz = SpecViz()
>>> # Display Specviz
>>> specviz.app   

To extract the data currently loaded into the viewer do:

specviz.get_spectra()

which yields a specutils.Spectrum1D object that you can manipulate however you wish. You can then load the modified spectrum back into the notebook via the API described in Loading data via the API.

Alternatively, if you want more control over Specviz, you can access it the via the lower-level application interface that connects to the glue-jupyter application level. This is accessed via the .app attribute of the SpecViz helper class. For example:

specviz.app.get_data_from_viewer('spectrum-viewer')

For more on what you can do with this lower-level object, see the API sections and the glue-jupyter documentation