Developing PYTHON Codes for the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team

~We describe here progress toward developing a number of new PYTHON routines to be used by members of the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team.~ The codes are designed to analyze HI spectra and assist in identifying and categorizing some of the intriguing sources found in the initial blind ALFALFA survey.~ Numerical integration is performed on extragalactic sources using 21cm line spectra produced with the L-Band Wide receiver at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center.~ Prior to the integration, polynomial fits are employed to obtain an appropriate baseline for each source.~ The codes developed here are part of a larger team effort to use new PYTHON routines in order to replace, upgrade, or supplement a wealth of existing IDL codes within the collaboration.~