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pcigale: porting Code Investigating Galaxy Emission to Python

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2013-09-26 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Authors: Yannick Roehlly , Denis Burgarella , Véronique Buat , Médéric Boquien , Laure Ciesla , Sébastien Heinis
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Abstract

We present pcigale, the port to Python of CIGALE (Code Investigating Galaxy Emission) a Fortran spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code developed at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille. After recalling the specifics of the SED fitting method, we show the gains in modularity and versatility offered by Python, as well as the drawbacks compared to the compiled code.

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scientific software and data analysis tools

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@article{arxiv.1309.6366,
  title  = {pcigale: porting Code Investigating Galaxy Emission to Python},
  author = {Yannick Roehlly and Denis Burgarella and Véronique Buat and Médéric Boquien and Laure Ciesla and Sébastien Heinis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6366},
  year   = {2013}
}

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