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.
Luca Tortorelli, University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Amata Mercurio, Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
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
- 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.
Install via pip:
pip install morphofit
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.
The author is grateful to Chien Y. Peng for the development of GALFIT (Peng et al. 2002, 2010).