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

Abstract

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 multi-component models) onto image grids and enables PSF 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).

arXiv commentPublished AJ, 28 pages, 17 figures, see https://github.com/PetroFit/petrofit; typos corrected, footnote on PSFModel class, paper status update, DOI provided

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