Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: morphofit
Version: 1.1.0
Summary: A Python package for the morphological analysis of galaxies (Tortorelli and Mercurio 2023)
Home-page: https://github.com/torluca/morphofit
Download-URL: https://github.com/torluca/morphofit/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.0.tar.gz
Author: Luca Tortorelli
Author-email: Luca.Tortorelli@physik.lmu.de
License: MIT License
Keywords: morphofit,morphology,galfit
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
License-File: LICENSE

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

Main Contributor
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Amata Mercurio, Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

Copyright
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Copyright (C) 2019, 2020 Luca Tortorelli, ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Copyright (C) 2021, 2022, 2023 University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

Features
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* 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
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Install via `pip`:

    pip install morphofit

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



Documentation
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The full documentation can be generated with Sphinx

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History
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1.0.0 (2022-03-11)
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* First release on PyPI.

1.1.0 (2023-02-15)
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* PyPI release accompanying Tortorelli and Mercurio 2023 paper acceptance for publication on Frontiers of Astronomy and Space Sciences .

