PaFit: Kinematic Position Angle Fitting
Project description
Kinematic Position Angle Fitting for Galaxies
The PaFit package is a Python implementation of the algorithm to fit the global kinematic position angle of galaxies, described in Appendix C of Krajnovic et al. (2006).
Attribution
If you use this software for your research, please cite Krajnovic et al. (2006). The BibTeX entry for the paper is:
@Article{Krajnovic2006, title = {Kinemetry: a generalization of photometry to the higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution}, author = {{Krajnovi{\'c}}, D. and {Cappellari}, M. and {de Zeeuw}, P.~T. and {Copin}, Y.}, journal = {MNRAS}, eprint = {arXiv:astro-ph/0512200} year = {2006}, pages = {787-802}, volume = {366}, doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09902.x} }
Installation
install with:
pip install pafit
Without writing access to the global site-packages directory, use:
pip install --user pafit
Documentation
See the pafit/fit_kinematic_pa.py file header.
License
Copyright (c) 2005-2018 Michele Cappellari
This software is provided as is without any warranty whatsoever. Permission to use, for non-commercial purposes is granted. Permission to modify for personal or internal use is granted, provided this copyright and disclaimer are included in all copies of the software. All other rights are reserved. In particular, redistribution of the code is not allowed.
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