Acknowledgments¶
PyImfit is based on André Luiz de Amorim’s python-imfit wrapper about an earlier version of Imfit.
Imfit-related Acknowledgements¶
Major inspirations for Imfit include both GALFIT and BUDDA.
Thanks also to Michael Opitsch and Michael Williams for being (partly unwitting) beta testers and for their feedback, to Martin Kuemmel for suggesting an early improvement (and finding a related bug), to Roberto Saglia for urging me to implement the Core-Sérsic function, and to Maximilian Fabricius for suggesting improvements to the documentation. Additional bug reports and suggestions from André Luiz de Amorim, Giulia Savorgnan, David Streich, Guillermo Barro, Sergio Pascual, Lee Kelvin, Colleen Gilhuly, Semyeong Oh, Benne Holwerde, David Wilman, Iskren Georgiev, Corentin Schreiber, Dan Prole, Alex Borlaff, and Daria Kozlova are gratefully appreciated.
Data Sources¶
Sample FITS images for demonstration and testing use are taken from Data Release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Funding for the creation and distribution of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Archive has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/.
The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, the Korean Scientist Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.