ignore

sherpa.astro.ui.ignore(lo=None, hi=None, **kwargs) → None

Exclude data from the fit.

Select one or more ranges of data to exclude by filtering on the independent axis value. The filter is applied to all data sets.

Changed in version 4.15.0: The change in the filter is now reported for each dataset.

Changed in version 4.14.0: Integrated data sets - so Data1DInt and DataPHA when using energy or wavelengths - now ensure that the hi argument is exclusive and better handling of the lo argument when it matches a bin edge. This can result in the same filter selecting a smaller number of bins than in earlier versions of Sherpa.

Parameters:

  • lo (number or str, optional) – The lower bound of the filter (when a number) or a string expression listing ranges in the form a:b, with multiple ranges allowed, where the ranges are separated by a ,. The term :b means exclude everything up to b (an exclusive limit for integrated datasets), and a: means exclude everything that is higher than, or equal to, a.

  • hi (number, optional) – The upper bound of the filter when lo is not a string.

  • bkg_id (int or str, optional) – The filter will be applied to the associated background component of the data set if bkg_id is set. Only PHA data sets support this option; if not given, then the filter is applied to all background components as well as the source data.

See also

ignore_id

Exclude data from the fit for a data set.

sherpa.astro.ui.ignore2d

Exclude a spatial region from an image.

notice

Include data in the fit.

show_filter

Show any filters applied to a data set.

Notes

The order of ignore and notice calls is important, and the results are a union, rather than intersection, of the combination.

For binned data sets, the bin is excluded if the ignored range falls anywhere within the bin.

The units used depend on the analysis setting of the data set, if appropriate.

To filter a 2D data set by a shape use ignore2d.

The report of the change in the filter expression can be controlled with the SherpaVerbosity context manager, as shown in the examples below.

Examples

Ignore all data points with an X value (the independent axis) between 12 and 18. For this one-dimensional data set, this means that the second bin is ignored:

>>> load_arrays(1, [10, 15, 20, 30], [5, 10, 7, 13])
>>> ignore(12, 18)
dataset 1: 10:30 -> 10,20:30 x
>>> get_dep(filter=True)
array([ 5,  7, 13])

Filtering X values that are 25 or larger means that the last point is also ignored:

>>> ignore(lo=25)
dataset 1: 10,20:30 -> 10,20 x
>>> get_dep(filter=True)
array([ 5,  7])

The notice call removes the previous filter, and then a multi-range filter is applied to exclude values between 8 and 12 and 18 and 22:

>>> notice()
dataset 1: 10,20 -> 10:30 x
>>> ignore("8:12, 18:22")
dataset 1: 10:30 -> 15:30 x
dataset 1: 15:30 -> 15,30 x
>>> get_dep(filter=True)
array([10, 13])

The SherpaVerbosity context manager can be used to hide the screen output:

>>> from sherpa.utils.logging import SherpaVerbosity
>>> with SherpaVerbosity("WARN"):
...     ignore(hi=12)
...