Non-linear Least Squares Fitting in IDL with MPFIT

Abstract

MPFIT is a port to IDL of the non-linear least squares fitting program MINPACK-1. MPFIT inherits the robustness of the original FORTRAN version of MINPACK-1, but is optimized for performance and convenience in IDL. In addition to the main fitting engine, MPFIT, several specialized functions are provided to fit 1-D curves and 2-D images; 1-D and 2-D peaks; and interactive fitting from the IDL command line. Several constraints can be applied to model parameters, including fixed constraints, simple bounding constraints, and "tying" the value to another parameter. Several data weighting methods are allowed, and the parameter covariance matrix is computed. Extensive diagnostic capabilities are available during the fit, via a call-back subroutine, and after the fit is complete. Several different forms of documentation are provided, including a tutorial, reference pages, and frequently asked questions. The package has been translated to C and Python as well. The full IDL and C packages can be found at http://purl.com/net/mpfit

ADASS 2008 (Quebec) proceedings (4 pages)

Cited by in corpus (158)

• Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss-Hermite functions
• The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies
• Ionospheric Calibration of Low Frequency Radio Interferometric Observations using the Peeling Scheme: I. Method Description and First Results
• The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IX. Colors, Lensing and Stellar Masses of Early-type Galaxies
• Molecular gas kinematics within the central 250 pc of the Milky Way
• The MiMeS survey of magnetism in massive stars: Magnetic analysis of the O-type stars
• Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system
• A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the link between angular momentum and optical morphology
• The Mass and Momentum Outflow Rates of Photoionized Galactic Outflows
• Prominence and Filament Eruptions Observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory: Statistical Properties, Kinematics, and Online Catalog
• Astrophysically Motivated Bulge-Disk Decompositions of SDSS Galaxies
• GASP XIII. Star formation in gas outside galaxies
• Gravitational lensing reveals ionizing ultraviolet photons escaping from a distant galaxy
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes
• The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): rotational velocities and angular momentum of z~0.9 galaxies
• Lyα Emission from High Redshift Sources in COSMOS
• The near-infrared broad emission line region of active galactic nuclei. II. The one-micron continuum
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: extraplanar gas, galactic winds, and their association with star formation history
• MAHALO Deep Cluster Survey I. Accelerated and enhanced galaxy formation in the densest regions of a protocluster at z=2.5
• Resolved Spectrophotometric Properties of the Ceres Surface from Dawn Framing Camera Images
• Dominant dark matter and a counter rotating disc: MUSE view of the low luminosity S0 galaxy NGC 5102
• Global Photometric Properties of Asteroid (4) Vesta Observed with Dawn Framing Camera
• Detailed Abundances of Two Very Metal-Poor Stars in Dwarf Galaxies
• A Dynamical Analysis of the Proposed Circumbinary HW Virginis Planetary System
• MAHALO Deep Cluster Survey II. Characterizing massive forming galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster at z=2.2
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Revising the Fraction of Slow Rotators in IFS Galaxy Surveys
• The Effects of Diffuse Ionized Gas and Spatial Resolution on Metallicity Gradients: TYPHOON Two-Dimensional Spectrophotometry of M83
• Investigating plasma motion of magnetic clouds at 1 AU through a velocity-modified cylindrical force-free flux rope model
• Close entrainment of massive molecular gas flows by radio bubbles in the central galaxy of Abell 1795
• Seeding the Galactic Centre gas stream: gravitational instabilities set the initial conditions for the formation of protocluster clouds
• The Expanding Fireball of Nova Delphini 2013
• Prolate rotation and metallicity gradient in the transforming dwarf galaxy Phoenix
• Spectrophotometric templates for core collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys
• Constraining the Origins of Neptune's Carbon Monoxide Abundance with CARMA Millimeter-wave Observations
• The scatter and evolution of the global hot gas properties of simulated galaxy cluster populations
• A Dust Twin of Cas A: Cool Dust and 21-micron Silicate Dust Feature in the Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3
• The Initial-Final Mass Relation among White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries
• A Merged Search-Coil and Fluxgate Magnetometer Data Product for Parker Solar Probe FIELDS
• A Robust Measurement of the Mass Outflow Rate of the Galactic Outflow from NGC 6090
• A Recalibration of Strong Line Oxygen Abundance Diagnostics via the Direct Method and Implications for the High Redshift Universe
• SpecPro: An Interactive IDL Program for Viewing and Analyzing Astronomical Spectra
• Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections. II. Infrared bolometric corrections
• SOFIA mid-infrared observations of Supernova 1987A in 2016 --- forward shocks and possible dust re-formation in the post-shocked region?
• Investigating the physical properties of transiting hot Jupiters with the 1.5-m Kuiper Telescope
• JINGLE -- IV. Dust, HI gas and metal scaling laws in the local Universe
• Outflows in the Narrow Line Region of Bright Seyfert Galaxies - I: GMOS-IFU Data
• No signs of star formation being regulated in the most luminous quasars at z~2 with ALMA
• PAHs and star formation in the HII regions of nearby galaxies M83 and M33
• A near-infrared relationship for estimating black hole masses in active galactic nuclei
• Jets blowing bubbles in the young radio galaxy 4C 31.04
• The Carina Nebula and Gum 31 molecular complex: I. Molecular gas distribution, column densities and dust temperatures
• Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) II. A "Super-Earth" Orbiting a Young K Dwarf in the Pleiades Neighborhood
• WISDOM project - IV. A molecular gas dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in NGC 524
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a statistical approach to an optimal classification of stellar kinematics in galaxy surveys
• Seasonal Evolution of Saturn's Polar Temperatures and Composition
• The first sub-70 minute non-interacting WD-BD system: EPIC212235321
• Correlated X-ray/Ultraviolet/Optical Variability in NGC 6814
• KROSS-SAMI: A Direct IFS Comparison of the Tully-Fisher Relation Across 8 Gyr Since $z\approx 1$
• Simulated Space Weathering of Fe- and Mg-rich Aqueously Altered Minerals Using Pulsed Laser Irradiation
• Supernova-Driven Outflows in NGC 7552: A Comparison of H-alpha and UV Tracers
• H0LiCOW X: Spectroscopic/imaging survey and galaxy-group identification around the strong gravitational lens system WFI2033-4723
• Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Evidence for AGN Heating Warm Molecular Gas
• Kinematic Modelling of Disc Galaxies using Graphics Processing Units
• The complex jet- and bar-perturbed kinematics in NGC 3393 as revealed with ALMA and GEMINI-GMOS/IFU
• The Expansion Proper Motions of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 from HST imaging
• 90GHz and 150GHz observations of the Orion M42 region. A sub-millimeter to radio analysis
• The first spectroscopic dust reverberation programme on active galactic nuclei: the torus in NGC 5548
• Microlensing in H1413+117 : disentangling line profile emission and absorption in a broad absorption line quasar
• An ALMA survey of CO in submillimetre galaxies: companions, triggering, and the environment in blended sources
• WR 110: A Single Wolf-Rayet Star With Corotating Interaction Regions In Its Wind?
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Mass and Environment as Independent Drivers of Galaxy Dynamics
• S-PASS/ATCA: a window on the magnetic universe in the southern hemisphere
• Feeding the fire: Tracing the mass-loading of 10^7 K galactic outflows with O VI absorption
• The generalized scaling relations for X-ray galaxy clusters: the most powerful mass proxy
• Star-formation complexes in the 'galaxy-sized' supergiant shell of the galaxy Holmberg I
• Disentangling the physical parameters of gaseous nebulae and galaxies
• Local anti-correlation between star-formation rate and gas-phase metallicity in disk galaxies
• Solo dwarfs II: The stellar structure of isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies
• Multiwavelength Photometric and Spectropolarimetric Analysis of the FSRQ 3C 279
• Determination of spectroscopic parameters for 313 M dwarf stars from their APOGEE Data Release 16 H-band spectra
• Gemini NIFS survey of feeding and feedback in nearbyActive Galaxies - III. Ionized versus warm molecular gasmasses and distributions
• Galaxy counterparts of intervening high-z sub-DLAs/DLAs and MgII absorbers towards gamma-ray bursts
• A Malin 1 'cousin' with counter-rotation: internal dynamics and stellar content of the giant low surface brightness galaxy UGC 1922
• A Statistical Comparison of the Optical/UV and X-ray Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Swift Ultra-violet Optical and X-ray Telescopes
• The boulder population of asteroid 4 Vesta: Size-frequency distribution and survival time
• Simultaneous longitudinal and transverse oscillation in an active filament
• Ionized gas kinematics within the inner kiloparsec of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365
• Photometric transit search for planets around cool stars from the western Italian Alps: A pilot study
• THE MOSDEF SURVEY: The Nature of Mid-Infrared Excess Galaxies and a Comparison of IR and UV Star Formation Tracers at z~2
• Cassini observations of Saturn's southern polar cusp
• Spatial Variations in the Dust-to-Gas Ratio of Enceladus' Plume
• Investigating the high-frequency spectral features of SNRs Tycho, W44 and IC443 with the Sardinia Radio Telescope
• Tracing the origin of the AGN fuelling reservoir in MCG--6-30-15
• SDSS J094635.06+101706.1: a redshift one, very radio-loud, γ-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy
• Measuring $H_0$ using X-ray and SZ effect observations of dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters
• Integral Field Spectroscopy of Balmer-Dominated Shocks in the Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant N103B
• Non-circular features in Saturn's D ring: D68
• First Spectroscopic Identification of Massive Young Stellar Objects in the Galactic Center
• Spectroscopic classification, variability and SED of the Fermi-detected CSS 3C 286: the radio-loudest NLS1 galaxy?
• Testing the Gamma-Ray Burst Pulse Start Conjecture
• Metallicity and ionization state of the gas in polar-ring galaxies
• The Dynamics and Distribution of Angular Momentum in HiZELS Star-Forming Galaxies at z = 0.8 - 3.3
• Star formation in the nearby dwarf galaxy DDO 53: interplay between gas accretion and stellar feedback
• Spectral Energy Distributions of Candidate Periodically-Variable Quasars: Testing the Binary Black Hole Hypothesis
• Spectroscopic Orbital Elements for the Helium-Rich Subdwarf Binary PG1544+488
• Transverse oscillations in a coronal loop triggered by a jet
• Possible Transient Luminous Events observed in Jupiter's upper atmosphere
• The spatially-resolved gas and dust connection in neutral inflows and outflows in nearby AGN
• The Prevalence of Narrow Optical Fe II Emission Lines in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei
• Powerful multiphase outflows in the central region of Cygnus A
• Riding the wake of a merging galaxy cluster
• A High-Caliber View of the Bullet Cluster Through JWST Strong and Weak Lensing Analyses
• A radial velocity survey of the Carina Nebula's O-type stars
• Multiwavelength Analysis of the Variability of the Blazar 3C 273
• Dielectric Properties of Vesta's Surface as Constrained by Dawn VIR Observations
• Searching for signs of jet-driven negative feedback in the nearby radio galaxy UGC 05771
• Time Evolution Of Cyclotron Line of Her X-1; A Detailed StatisticalAnalysis Including New ASTROSAT Data
• Measuring the total infrared light from galaxy clusters at z=0.5-1.6: connecting stellar populations to dusty star formation
• K-CLASH: spatially-resolving star-forming galaxies in field and cluster environments at $z\approx 0.2$-$0.6$
• Resolved spectral variations of the centimetre-wavelength continuum from the rho Oph W photo-dissociation-region
• Tentative Detection of the Circumgalactic Medium of the Isolated Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxy WLM
• Unravelling the enigmatic ISM conditions in Minkowski's Object
• Search for gas accretion imprints in voids: II. The galaxy Ark 18 as a result of a dwarf-dwarf merger
• Herschel Planetary Nebula Survey (HerPlaNS): Hydrogen Recombination Laser Lines in Mz 3
• Kinematics and Magnetic Properties of a Light Bridge in a Decaying Sunspot
• Marginalised Normal Regression: Unbiased curve fitting in the presence of x-errors
• JPEG2000 Image Compression on Solar EUV Images
• Flame: A Flexible Data Reduction Pipeline for Near-Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy
• A modified CoRoT detrend algorithm and the discovery of a new planetary companion
• A far-UV survey of three hot, metal-polluted white dwarf stars: WD0455-282, WD0621-376, and WD2211-495
• The BAHAMAS project: Evaluating the accuracy of the halo model in predicting the non-linear matter power spectrum
• The mineralogy of newly formed dust in active galactic nuclei
• Derivation of parameters for 3748 FGK stars using H-band spectra from APOGEE Data Release 14
• Geometrical model fitting for interferometric data: GEM-FIND
• Coronal properties of the luminous radio-quiet quasar QSO B2202$-$209
• Statistical Study and Live Catalogue of Multi-Spacecraft 3He-Rich Time Periods over Solar Cycles 23, 24, and 25
• Search for gas accretion imprints in voids: I. Sample selection and results for NGC 428
• On the RZ Draconis Sub-stellar Circumbinary Companions Stability Study of the Proposed Sub-stellar Circumbinary System
• The nature of X-ray spectral variability in MCG-6-30-15
• A young and obscured AGN embedded in the giant radio galaxy Mrk 1498
• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Disk-halo interactions in radio-selected star-forming galaxies
• Outflows in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC5643 traced by the [SIII] emission
• Wavelength Dependence of Image Quality Metrics and Seeing Parameters and their Relation to Adaptive Optics Performance
• Evidence of a Disk-wind Origin for Fluorescent H${}_2$ in Classical T Tauri Stars
• A Dual Active Black Hole Candidate with Mass Ratio ~7:1 in a Disk Galaxy
• Distance, reddening and three dimensional structure of the SMC - I: Using RRab stars
• Linking Compact Dwarf Starburst Galaxies in the RESOLVE Survey to Downsized Blue Nuggets
• Tentative Detection of Quasar Feedback from WMAP and SDSS Cross-Correlation
• On the origin of the anomalous gas, non-declining rotation curve and disc asymmetries in NGC253
• Making 3D movies of Northern Lights
• Spectral Analysis Code: PARAS SPEC
• Multiple pattern speeds in a long peanut-shaped bar in a simulated galaxy
• Measuring the Etalon Quality of the GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer
• The nature of X-ray spectral variability in SWIFT J2127.4+5654
• Star Formation Histories and Stellar Dynamics in the Central Galaxies of RX J0820.9+0752, A1835, and PKS 0745-191
• Correlations of gas, dust and young stellar populations in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331
• Collapsing Index: A New Method to Identify Star-forming Cores Based on ALMA Images