[SciPy-User] Fitting Gaussian in spectra

[Jerome Kieffer]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:15:21 +0530
Joe Philip Ninan <indiajoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) fit the continuum and subtract it.
> Or is there any other module in python/scipy which i should give a try?
> Thanking you.

Iteratively apply a Savitsky-Golay filter with a large width(>10) and a low order (2).
at the begining you will only smear out the noise then start removing peaks.

SG filter are really fast to apply.

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Jérôme Kieffer
Data analysis unit - ESRF