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astro-ph.IM2012★ 39 cited
Replacing standard galaxy profiles with mixtures of Gaussians
David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang
Exponential, de Vaucouleurs, and Sérsic profiles are simple and successful models for fitting two-dimensional images of galaxies. One numerical issue encountered in this kind of fi…
astro-ph.IM2012★ 12.4k cited
emcee: The MCMC Hammer
Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang +1
We introduce a stable, well tested Python implementation of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) proposed by Goodman & Weare (2010). The code i…