peakidentifier(1)

✨ peakidentifier(1) — the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit glow-up ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're about to talk about peakidentifier from the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit and honestly? she's niche but she serves. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

peakidentifier — you give her a photon energy, and she hands you back the possible elements. that's it. that's the whole gig. iconic behavior fr fr 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

peakidentifier

no flags, no args, no drama. she just exists and you talk to her. lowkey refreshing tbh 😌

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: you hand over an energy and a threshold, and she lists every single element that emits X-rays in the range

[energy-threshold, energy+threshold]

like, the whole window. everything that could possibly be throwing photons in that little zone. no gatekeeping 💖

and the way that you get to choose which lines count?? user's choice, bestie. she'll consider lines like:

• K
• L1
• L2
• L3
• M
• ... and the rest of the family, iykyk 🌈

then for every hit she spills the tea on three things:

1. the element 🌸
2. the IUPAC line name 🎀
3. the relative intensity of that line — meaning, how loud it is among the family of lines it belongs to 👑

not me getting emotional over a peak table. the way she tells you the line name AND its intensity relative to its own line family?? main character energy, no cap. 😭💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• xraylib — the friend she's always tagging in the group chat 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little baddie comes to you courtesy of ESRF, dated March 2012 — yeah she's a vintage queen and she still ate. 👑✨ bye ily, go identify some peaks 💖🧚