Welcome to mhealpy’s documentation!

HEALPix is a Hierarchical, Equal Area, and iso-Latitude Pixelisation of the sphere. It has been implemented in multiple languages, including Python through the healpy library.

mhealpy is an object-oriented wrapper of healpy, in the fashion of Healpix C++, that extends its functionalities to handle multi-resolution maps.

Reference: Martinez-Castellanos, I. et al. Multi-Resolution HEALPix Maps for Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Messenger Astronomy. arXiv: 2111.11240 [astro-ph.IM] (2021).