[ascl:1705.010]
PROFILER: 1D galaxy light profile decomposition
Written in Python, PROFILER analyzes the radial surface brightness profiles of galaxies. It accurately models a wide range of galaxies and galaxy components, such as elliptical galaxies, the bulges of spiral and lenticular galaxies, nuclear sources, discs, bars, rings, and spiral arms with a variety of parametric functions routinely employed in the field (Sérsic, core-Sérsic, exponential, Gaussian, Moffat and Ferrers). In addition, Profiler can employ the broken exponential model (relevant for disc truncations or antitruncations) and two special cases of the edge-on disc model: namely along the major axis (in the disc plane) and along the minor axis (perpendicular to the disc plane).
- Code site:
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https://github.com/BogdanCiambur/PROFILER
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PASA...33...62C
- Bibcode:
- 2017ascl.soft05010C