SourceXtractor++ User Manual

Contents

• Introduction
• License
  • Code
  • Documentation
  • Discussion group for SourceXtractor++ users
  • References and Acknowledgment
• Installing the software
  • Hardware requirements
    • Terminal
    • Memory
    • CPUs
  • Obtaining SourceXtractor++
    • From Fedora or EPEL repositories
    • From Anaconda Cloud
    • From Sources
• Using SourceXtractor++
  • Input files
    • Detection and measurement images
    • Weight-maps
    • Flag-maps
    • PSF models
  • Output
    • Catalog
    • Output properties
    • Diagnostic files
  • Configuration
    • The configuration file
• Processing
  • Modeling the background
    • Background estimation
    • Background map
    • Configuration and tuning
    • Computing cost
  • Weighting
    • Effect of weighting
    • Weight-map formats
  • Flagging
    • External flags
• Asociation Mode
• Measuring
  • The measurement configuration script
    • Measurement images
    • Grouping and splitting
  • Measurements
    • Isophotal measurements
    • Aperture photometry
    • Model fitting
• Test Data Set
  • 01 The basics
  • 02 Multi-band
  • 03 Dependent parameters and priors
  • 04 User defined functions
  • 05 Working on cubes
  • 06 Extended associations
  • 07 The future: Python control
• Configuration API Reference
  • argv
    • Arguments
    • FileList
  • output
  • measurement_images
    • ByKeyword
    • ByPattern
    • DataCubeSlice
    • FitsFile
    • ImageGroup
    • MeasurementGroup
    • MeasurementImage
  • aperture
  • model_fitting
    • ComputeGraphModel
    • ConstantModel
    • ConstantParameter
    • CoordinateModelBase
    • DeVaucouleursModel
    • DependentParameter
    • ExponentialModel
    • FluxParameterType
    • FreeParameter
    • ModelBase
    • ParameterBase
    • PointSourceModel
    • Prior
    • Range
    • RangeType
    • SersicModel
    • SersicModelBase
    • Unbounded
    • WorldCoordinate
    • get_flux_parameter()
    • get_pos_parameters()
    • get_position_angle()
    • get_separation_angle()
    • get_sky_coord()
    • get_world_parameters()
    • get_world_position_parameters()
    • pixel_to_world_coordinate()
    • print_model_fitting_info()
    • radius_to_wc_angle()
• Troubleshooting
  • NO SOURCES DETECTED
  • Problems with temporary disk space
  • SourceXtractor++ stops shortly after the first measurements are done
• Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index