$\mathrm{morphofit}$: An automated galaxy structural parameters fitting package

2023

In today's modern wide-field galaxy surveys, there is the necessity for parametric surface brightness decomposition codes characterised by accuracy, small degree of user intervention, and high degree of parallelisation. We try to address this necessity by introducing $\mathrm{morphofit}$, a highly parallelisable $\mathrm{Python}$ package for the estimate of galaxy structural parameters. The package makes use of wide-spread and reliable codes, namely $\mathrm{SExtractor}$ and $\mathrm{GALFIT}$. It has been optimised and tested in both low-density and crowded environments, where blending and diffuse light makes the structural parameters estimate particularly challenging. $\mathrm{morphofit}$ …