gAlactic Faint Feature extractiOn with GALFITM-bAsed Tools in pythOn
Used in Nolan et al., 2025 and submitted separately to JOSS. The example file should work in an environment installed with Jupyter and affogato-agn installed - I use Conda, and add conda-nb-kernels to the environment setup and install AFFOGATO separately with pip.
These wrapper functions generally assume all of the GALFITM work is being done
in a fairly clean directory, where files are not being saved permanently,
instead being backed up somewhere else if needed, and other intermediate
processes are discarded. I've tried to make these functions as general as is
practical, and noted in comments where the code becomes specific to my use
case.
NOTA BENE: On my Mac, the GALFITM executable did not work until placing it in
the src folder of Anaconda3, and only then did it throw an error stating it was
being blocked by the secuity software of my Mac. I was then able to override
that block in the Privacy & Security settings. I provide options for where to
send your download, but your mileage may vary.