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A Python package for the morphological analysis of galaxies (Tortorelli & Mercurio 2023).

When using this code, please cite Tortorelli et al. 2018, Tortorelli & Mercurio 2023, and Tortorelli et al. 2023.

Author

Luca Tortorelli, University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Main Contributor

Amata Mercurio, Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

Features

  • Creation of multiband catalogue with Source Extractor.

  • Creation of PSF images using different methodologies.

  • GALFIT run on galaxy stamps from the parent image.

  • GALFIT run on galaxy regions from the parent image.

  • GALFIT run on galaxies from the full image.

Installation

Install via pip:

pip install morphofit

How to use it

morphofit consists of a series of modules that are run via command line using the esub-epipe Python package (Zuercher et al. 2021,2022). See the Jupyter notebook demo_usage.ipynb in the morphofit/examples folder for more details.

Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to Chien Y. Peng for the development of GALFIT (Peng et al. 2002, 2010).

Documentation

The full documentation can be generated with Sphinx

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History

1.0.0 (2022-03-11)

  • First release on PyPI.

1.1.0 (2023-02-15)

  • PyPI release accompanying Tortorelli and Mercurio 2023 paper acceptance for publication on Frontiers of Astronomy and Space Sciences .

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