BaseSourceSelectorTask

class lsst.meas.algorithms.BaseSourceSelectorTask(**kwargs)

Bases: Task

Base class for source selectors

Source selectors are classes that perform a selection on a catalog object given a set of criteria or cuts. They return the selected catalog and can optionally set a specified Flag field in the input catalog to identify if the source was selected.

Register all source selectors with the sourceSelectorRegistry using:

sourceSelectorRegistry.register(name, class)

Attributes:
usesMatchesbool

A boolean variable specify if the inherited source selector uses matches to an external catalog, and thus requires the matches argument to run().

Attributes Summary

usesMatches

Methods Summary

emptyMetadata()

Empty (clear) the metadata for this Task and all sub-Tasks.

getFullMetadata()

Get metadata for all tasks.

getFullName()

Get the task name as a hierarchical name including parent task names.

getName()

Get the name of the task.

getTaskDict()

Get a dictionary of all tasks as a shallow copy.

makeField(doc)

Make a lsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField for this task.

makeSubtask(name, **keyArgs)

Create a subtask as a new instance as the name attribute of this task.

run(sourceCat[, sourceSelectedField, ...])

Select sources and return them.

selectSources(sourceCat[, matches, exposure])

Return a selection of sources selected by some criteria.

timer(name[, logLevel])

Context manager to log performance data for an arbitrary block of code.

Attributes Documentation

usesMatches = False

Methods Documentation

emptyMetadata() None

Empty (clear) the metadata for this Task and all sub-Tasks.

getFullMetadata() TaskMetadata

Get metadata for all tasks.

Returns:
metadataTaskMetadata

The keys are the full task name. Values are metadata for the top-level task and all subtasks, sub-subtasks, etc.

Notes

The returned metadata includes timing information (if @timer.timeMethod is used) and any metadata set by the task. The name of each item consists of the full task name with . replaced by :, followed by . and the name of the item, e.g.:

topLevelTaskName:subtaskName:subsubtaskName.itemName

using : in the full task name disambiguates the rare situation that a task has a subtask and a metadata item with the same name.

getFullName() str

Get the task name as a hierarchical name including parent task names.

Returns:
fullNamestr

The full name consists of the name of the parent task and each subtask separated by periods. For example:

  • The full name of top-level task “top” is simply “top”.

  • The full name of subtask “sub” of top-level task “top” is “top.sub”.

  • The full name of subtask “sub2” of subtask “sub” of top-level task “top” is “top.sub.sub2”.

getName() str

Get the name of the task.

Returns:
taskNamestr

Name of the task.

See also

getFullName
getTaskDict() dict[str, weakref.ReferenceType[lsst.pipe.base.task.Task]]

Get a dictionary of all tasks as a shallow copy.

Returns:
taskDictdict

Dictionary containing full task name: task object for the top-level task and all subtasks, sub-subtasks, etc.

classmethod makeField(doc: str) ConfigurableField

Make a lsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField for this task.

Parameters:
docstr

Help text for the field.

Returns:
configurableFieldlsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField

A ConfigurableField for this task.

Examples

Provides a convenient way to specify this task is a subtask of another task.

Here is an example of use:

class OtherTaskConfig(lsst.pex.config.Config):
    aSubtask = ATaskClass.makeField("brief description of task")
makeSubtask(name: str, **keyArgs: Any) None

Create a subtask as a new instance as the name attribute of this task.

Parameters:
namestr

Brief name of the subtask.

**keyArgs

Extra keyword arguments used to construct the task. The following arguments are automatically provided and cannot be overridden:

  • config.

  • parentTask.

Notes

The subtask must be defined by Task.config.name, an instance of ConfigurableField or RegistryField.

run(sourceCat, sourceSelectedField=None, matches=None, exposure=None)

Select sources and return them.

The input catalog must be contiguous in memory.

Parameters:
sourceCatVarious table formats

Catalog of sources to select from. Can be lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog or pandas.DataFrame or astropy.table.Table,

sourceSelectedFieldstr or None

Name of flag field in sourceCat to set for selected sources. If set, will modify sourceCat in-place.

matcheslist of lsst.afw.table.ReferenceMatch or None

List of matches to use for source selection. If usesMatches is set in source selector this field is required. If not, it is ignored.

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure or None

The exposure the catalog was built from; used for debug display.

Returns:
structlsst.pipe.base.Struct

The struct contains the following data:

sourceCat

The catalog of sources that were selected. (may not be memory-contiguous) (lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog or pandas.DataFrame or astropy.table.Table)

selected

Boolean array of sources that were selected, same length as sourceCat. (numpy.ndarray of bool)

Raises:
RuntimeError

Raised if sourceCat is not contiguous.

abstract selectSources(sourceCat, matches=None, exposure=None)

Return a selection of sources selected by some criteria.

Parameters:
sourceCatVarious table formats

Catalog of sources to select from. Supports lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog or pandas.DataFrame or astropy.table.Table This catalog must be contiguous in memory.

matcheslist of lsst.afw.table.ReferenceMatch or None

A list of lsst.afw.table.ReferenceMatch objects

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure or None

The exposure the catalog was built from; used for debug display.

Returns:
structlsst.pipe.base.Struct

The struct contains the following data:

selected

Boolean array of sources that were selected, same length as sourceCat. (numpy.ndarray of bool)

timer(name: str, logLevel: int = 10) Iterator[None]

Context manager to log performance data for an arbitrary block of code.

Parameters:
namestr

Name of code being timed; data will be logged using item name: Start and End.

logLevel

A logging level constant.

Examples

Creating a timer context:

with self.timer("someCodeToTime"):
    pass  # code to time