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PYMORPH: automated galaxy structural parameter estimation using PYTHON

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 409, Issue 4, Pages 1379-1392

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17426.x

Keywords

techniques: photometric; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: structure

Funding

  1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

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We present a new software pipeline - PyMorph - for automated estimation of structural parameters of galaxies. Both parametric fits through a two-dimensional bulge disc decomposition and structural parameter measurements like concentration, asymmetry etc. are supported. The pipeline is designed to be easy to use yet flexible; individual software modules can be replaced with ease. A find-and-fit mode is available so that all galaxies in an image can be measured with a simple command. A parallel version of the PyMorph pipeline runs on computer clusters and a virtual observatory compatible web enabled interface is under development.

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