PetroFit: A Python Package for Computing Petrosian Radii and Fitting Galaxy Light Profiles

PetroFit is an open-source Python package based on Astropy and Photutils that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological properties, and fitting 2D models to galaxy images. Petrosian metric...

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Main Authors: Bershady, M. (Author), Crawford, S.M (Author), Geda, R. (Author), Hunt, L. (Author), Randriamampandry, S. (Author), Tollerud, E. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2022
Online Access:View Fulltext in Publisher
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520 3 |a PetroFit is an open-source Python package based on Astropy and Photutils that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological properties, and fitting 2D models to galaxy images. Petrosian metric radii can be used for model parameter estimation and aperture photometry to provide accurate total fluxes. Correction tools are provided for improving Petrosian radii estimates affected by galaxy morphology. PetroFit also provides tools for sampling Astropy-based models (including custom profiles and multicomponent models) onto image grids and enables point-spread function convolution to account for the effects of seeing. These capabilities provide a robust means of modeling and fitting galaxy light profiles. We have made the PetroFit package publicly available on GitHub ( PetroFit/petrofit ) and PyPi (pip install petrofit). © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. 
700 1 |a Bershady, M.  |e author 
700 1 |a Crawford, S.M.  |e author 
700 1 |a Geda, R.  |e author 
700 1 |a Hunt, L.  |e author 
700 1 |a Randriamampandry, S.  |e author 
700 1 |a Tollerud, E.  |e author 
773 |t Astronomical Journal