The method is based upon the determination of topographic prominence implemented in the find_peaks() method of SciPy . It serves to identify the maxima in the heat flow curve by calculating the prominence of each peak within each sample and returns a list of peaks found. The peak prominence measures how much a peak stands out from the surrounding baseline of the signal and is defined as the vertical distance between the peak and its lowest contour line . The scipy.signal module uses the following strategy to compute a peak's prominence visualized in Figure • Step 1 (dotted line): Extend a horizontal line from the maximum of the peak until the line either reaches the window border or intersects the signal again at the slope of a higher peak. An intersection with a peak of the same height is ignored.