astromorphlib 1.0.13

Python scripts to analyze the morphology of isolated/interacting galaxies

Overview

Python scripts to analyze the morphology of isolated and interacting galaxies.

The package is designed to automatically download imaging data from:

• S-PLUS (https://splus.cloud/)
• Legacy Survey (https://www.legacysurvey.org)
• SDSS DR17 Imaging (https://www.sdss4.org/dr17/imaging)

The library also includes functionality to perform photometric modeling using simulated galaxy images, allowing controlled experiments and validation of morphological measurements.

There are functions to:

• Calculate a 2D sky background of the images
• Generate deblended segmentation maps of interacting systems with merger isophotes
• Perform non-parametric morphological analysis using the statmorph package.

Users can also study the environment of an object/system by downloading a list of galaxies within the Field-of-View of S-PLUS/Legacy images from the SIMBAD server (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/).

In addition, the package includes a function to display DSS2 images (http://alasky.u-strasbg.fr/hips-image-services/hips2fits) of any size.

:sparkles: Website: https://gitlab.com/joseaher/astromorphlib

Documentation

The documentation is available at https://astromorphlib.readthedocs.io

Installation

:sparkles: The latest version (17/04/2026) of astromorphlib is 1.0.13

Requirements

"astromorphlib" requires to run the following packages:

* statmorph
* splusdata
* astro-datalab
* astroplotlib
* astropy
* astroquery
* photutils (1.5.0 <)**
* numpy
* scipy
* matplotlib
* wget

** to install this specific version of photutils you can try:

% pip install photutils==1.5.0

This version can be easily installed via PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/astromorphlib/):

% pip install astromorphlib

If you prefer to install "astromorphlib" manually, you can clone the developing version at https://gitlab.com/joseaher/astromorphlib. In the directory this README is in, simply type:

% pip install .

or,

% python setup.py install

Uninstallation

To uninstall "astromorphlib", just type:

% pip uninstall astromorphlib

Publications

• Krabbe & Hernandez-Jimenez et al. (2024). In this paper Astromorphlib was applied to study ram-pressure stripped candidates.

Authors

• Jose Hernandez-Jimenez ([e-mail])
• Angela Krabbe

Acknowledgements

This software was funded partially by Brazilian agency FAPESP, process number 2021/08920-8.

Citing

If you use this code for a scientific publication, please cite Hernandez-Jimenez & Krabbe et al. (2022) and Krabbe & Hernandez-Jimenez et al. (2024). The BibTeX entries for this package are:

@MISC{hernandez_jimenez_2022,
  author       = {Hernandez-Jimenez, J. A. and
                  Krabbe, A. C.},
  title        = {{Astromorphlib: Python scripts to analyze the
                   morphology of isolated and interacting galaxies}},
  month        = jul,
  year         = 2022,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {0.2},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6940848},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6940848}
}

@ARTICLE{2024MNRAS.528.1125K,
       author = {{Krabbe}, A.~C. and {Hernandez-Jimenez}, J.~A. and {Mendes de Oliveira}, C. and {Jaffe}, Y.~L. and {Oliveira}, C.~B. and {Cardoso}, N.~M. and {Smith Castelli}, A.~V. and {Dors}, O.~L. and {Cortesi}, A. and {Crossett}, J.~P.},
        title = "{Diagnostic diagrams for ram pressure stripped candidates}",
      journal = {\mnras},
     keywords = {galaxies: clusters: general, galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: interactions, galaxies: irregular, galaxies: structure, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
         year = 2024,
        month = feb,
       volume = {528},
       number = {2},
        pages = {1125-1141},
          doi = {10.1093/mnras/stad3881},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2312.09220},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.528.1125K},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}