Quickstart

This page outlines a first run; each stage links to its full guide. It assumes sp_validation is installed (see Installation) and that you have a ShapePipe shear catalogue to validate.

Validation proceeds in four stages.

1. Configure. Set the inputs for a run (catalogue paths, field name, optional masks) in notebooks/params.py.

2. Shear validation. Extract shape information and run the basic diagnostics, producing the pre-calibration catalogues. See Running shear validation.

3. Post-processing. Mask, select, and calibrate into a science-ready shear catalogue. See Post-processing.

4. Cosmology inference. Measure the two-point correlation functions, then run the CosmoSIS / CosmoCov pipeline in cosmo_inference/ to derive cosmological constraints.

The User Guide in the sidebar expands each stage, and the API Reference documents the library modules you call from your own scripts and notebooks.