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We present an automated non-parametric light profile extraction pipeline called AutoProf. All steps for extracting surface brightness (SB) profiles are included in AutoProf, allowing streamlined analyses of galaxy images. AutoProf improves…

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We present a two-dimensional (2-D) fitting algorithm (GALFIT) designed to extract structural components from galaxy images, with emphasis on closely modeling light profiles of spatially well-resolved, nearby galaxies observed with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Chien Y. Peng , Luis C. Ho , Chris D. Impey , Hans-Walter Rix

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

Galaxy cluster analyses based on high-resolution observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect have become common in the last decade. We present PreProFit, the first publicly available code designed to fit the pressure profile of galaxy…

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We present the Exoplanet Simple Orbit Fitting Toolbox (ExoSOFT), a new, open-source suite to fit the orbital elements of planetary or stellar mass companions to any combination of radial velocity and astrometric data. To explore the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-13 Kyle Mede , Timothy D. Brandt

Petrosian magnitudes were designed to help with the difficult task of determining a galaxy's total light. Although these magnitudes (taken here as the flux within 2R_P, with the inverted Petrosian index 1/eta(R_P)=0.2) can represent most of…

pyspeckit is a toolkit and library for spectroscopic analysis in Python. We describe the pyspeckit package and highlight some of its capabilities, such as interactively fitting a model to data, akin to the historically widely-used splot…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Adam Ginsburg , Vlas Sokolov , Miguel de Val-Borro , Erik Rosolowsky , Jaime E. Pineda , Brigitta M. Sipőcz , Jonathan D. Henshaw

We present an algorithm implemented in the astroalign Python module for image registration in astronomy. Our module does not rely on WCS information and instead matches 3-point asterisms (triangles) on the images to find the most accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Martin Beroiz , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno Sanchez

Galight is a Python-based open-source package that can be used to perform two-dimensional model fitting of optical and near-infrared images to characterize the light distribution of galaxies with components including a disk, bulge, bar, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-18 Xuheng Ding , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu , John D. Silverman

Rotation curves are a fundamental tool in the study of galaxies across cosmic time, and with the advent of large integral field unit (IFU) kinematic surveys there is an increasing need for efficient and flexible modelling tools. We present…

A major trend in academia and data science is the rapid adoption of Bayesian statistics for data analysis and modeling, leading to the development of probabilistic programming languages (PPL). A PPL provides a framework that allows users to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-15 James. W. Nightingale , Richard G. Hayes , Matthew Griffiths

We present here the first release of the open-source python package ExoTETHyS, which aims to provide a stand-alone set of tools for modeling spectro-photometric observations of the transiting exoplanets. In particular, we describe: (1) a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Giuseppe Morello , Antonio Claret , Marine Martin-Lagarde , Christophe Cossou , Angelos Tsiaras , Pierre-Olivier Lagage

We present the pulsar_spectra software repository, an open-source pulsar flux density catalogue and automated spectral fitting software that finds the best spectral model and produces publication-quality plots. The Python-based software…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 N. A. Swainston , C. P. Lee , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat

Having a need to perform differential photometry for tens of thousands stars in a several square degrees field, we developed Astrokit program. The software corrects the star brightness variations caused by variations of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Artem Y. Burdanov , Vadim V. Krushinsky , Alexander A. Popov

We present PyGFit, a program designed to measure PSF-matched photometry from images with disparate pixel scales and PSF sizes. While PyGFit has a number of uses, its primary purpose is to extract robust spectral energy distributions (SEDs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Conor L. Mancone , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Leonidas A. Moustakas , Andrew Price

We present the scientific performance results of PynPoint, our Python-based software package that uses principle component analysis to detect and estimate the flux of exoplanets in two dimensional imaging data. Recent advances in adaptive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam Amara , Sascha Quanz

We present a new version of the FIT3D and Pipe3D codes, two packages to derive properties of the stellar populations and the ionized emission lines from optical spectroscopy and integral field spectroscopy data respectively. The new codes…

Historically, metallicity profiles of galaxies have been modelled using a radially symmetric, two-parameter linear model, which reveals that most galaxies are more metal-rich in their central regions than their outskirts. However, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Benjamin Metha , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu , Michele Trenti , Xuheng Ding , Xin Wang

An easy way to define and visualize geometry for PHITS input files introduced. Suggested FitsGeo Python package helps to define surfaces as Python objects and manipulate them conveniently. VPython assists to view defined geometry…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ivan Gordeev

We present the easy-to-use, publicly available, Python package petitRADTRANS, built for the spectral characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. The code is fast, accurate, and versatile; it can calculate both transmission and emission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 P. Mollière , J. P. Wardenier , R. van Boekel , Th. Henning , K. Molaverdikhani , I. A. G. Snellen