Autostronomy / AutoProf

Automatic Isophotal solutions for galaxy images
https://autoprof.readthedocs.io/
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fix clustering of global ellipticities #6

Closed hgao-astro closed 1 year ago

hgao-astro commented 1 year ago

The current implementation causes a clustering of the global ellipticities around the grid values, particularly for galaxies that are close to face-on. In order to increase the resolution of the grids and mitigate this issue, we have introduced a second pass to search for the optimal grid ellipticity. This approach results in a ~10 times increase in grid resolution, with only a ~10% increase in computing time during the initialization stage. Our tests on ~8000 galaxy images show that this second pass effectively removes the clustering, as can be seen in the attached plots.

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