ARCHANGEL: Galaxy Photometry System

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ARCHANGEL: Galaxy Photometry System

Abstract: ARCHANGEL is a Unix-based package for the surface photometry of galaxies. While oriented for large angular size systems (i.e. many pixels), its tools can be applied to any imaging data of any size. The package core contains routines to perform the following critical galaxy photometry functions:

• sky determination
• frame cleaning
• ellipse fitting
• profile fitting
• total and isophotal magnitudes

The goal of the package is to provide an automated, assembly-line type of reduction system for galaxy photometry of space-based or ground-based imaging data. The procedures outlined in the documentation are flux independent, thus, these routines can be used for non-optical data as well as typical imaging datasets.

ARCHANGEL has been tested on several current OS's (RedHat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X). A tarball for installation is available at the download page. The main routines are Python and FORTRAN based, therefore, a current installation of Python and a FORTRAN compiler are required. The ARCHANGEL package also contains Python hooks to the PGPLOT package, an XML processor and network tools which automatically link to data archives (i.e. NED, HST, 2MASS, etc) to download images in a non-interactive manner.

Credit: James Schombert

Site: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/archangel/
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703646
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1728

ID: ascl:1107.011