PyCASSO stands for Python CALIFA Stellar Synthesis Organizer, and its main objective is to help handling stellar synthesis datacubes produced by STARLIGHT from integrated field spectra (IFS) produced by the CALIFA survey.
This manual serves two purposes: it is a reference for the data cubes API, and a guide to the usage pattern of PyCASSO. The examples, when possible, contain real world data and perform common tasks when dealing with IFS data.
The CALIFA data cubes were preprocessed using a tool called QBICK to obtain spectra with a minimum signal-to-noise ratio using Voronoi binning. PyCASSO and QBICK may merge in the future.