Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S${}^4$G). The Pipeline 4: Multi-component decomposition strategies and data release

Heikki Salo, Eija Laurikainen, Jarkko Laine +20

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S${}^4$G, Sheth et. al. 2010) is a deep 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m imaging survey of 2352 nearby ($<40$ Mpc) galaxies. We describe the S$^…