GALFITools 0.17.5

A library for GALFIT package

GALFITools

A library for GALFIT

GALFIT is a 2 dimensional image fitting algorithm. See Peng et al. (2002, AJ, 124, 266) for general description.

GALFITools is a collection of Python scripts that improve the input and output analysis of GALFIT.

This is a set of routines which help the GALFIT’s user to make masks, cut stars, create multiple initial parameters, simulate galaxies, fit MGE, compute sky and compute other photometric variables.

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Installation

The python libraries required are:

• numpy

• astropy

• scipy

• matplotlib

• mgefit

Install GALFIT if you haven’t done so.

Download the latest release, and installed it via

cd GALFITools
pip install .

or

cd GALFITools
python setup.py install

Also, you can install it via pip:

pip install GALFITools

Run the automated tests:

tox

A list of commands will be installed and run it via shell.

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HOW TO USE

To learn how to use every command routine of GALFITools, check:

How to use

Where you can find full explanations of each routine.

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API

Check how to use the functions for your own scripts:

API

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License

The code is under the license of MIT

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Cite as

If you find this code useful, please cite as:

Añorve, Christopher. (2023). canorve/GALFITools: GALFITools v0.15.2 (v0.15.2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8216473

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Other Stuff

Check EllipSect to create surface brightness profiles from GALFIT output and estimate other photometric parameters:

here

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Questions?

Do you have any questions or suggestions? Please send an email to canorve [at] gmail [dot] com or open an issue

I’m open to new ideas that can benefit the library GALFITools and the GALFIT community

Note

This project has been set up using PyScaffold 4.2.1. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see https://pyscaffold.org/.