The Euclid satellite is an ESA mission scheduled for launch in September 2023. To optimally perform critical stages of the data reduction, such as object detection and morphology determination, a new and modern software package was required. We have developed SourceXtractor++ as open source software for detecting and measuring sources in astronomical images. It is a complete redesign of the original SExtractor, written mainly in C++. The package follows a modular approach and facilitates the analysis of multiple overlapping sources over many images with different pixel grids. SourceXtractor++ is already operational in many areas of the Euclid processing, and we demonstrate here the capabilities of the current version v0.19 on the basis of a set of typical use cases, which are available for download
@article{arxiv.2212.02428,
title = {Using the SourceXtractor++ package for data reduction},
author = {M. Kümmel and A. Álvarez-Ayllón and E. Bertin and P. Dubath and R. Gavazzi and W. Hartley and M. Schefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02428},
year = {2022}
}