Gnuastro: Estimating the Zero-point Magnitude in Astronomical Imaging
Abstract
Calibration of pixel values is a fundamental step for accurate measurements in astronomical imaging. In astronomical jargon this is known as estimating zero-point magnitude. Here, we introduce a newly added script in GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) version 0.20 for the zero-point magnitude estimation, named: astscript-zero-point. The script offers numerous features, such as the flexibility to use either image(s) or a catalog as the reference data set. Additionally, steps are parallelized to enhance efficiency for big data. Thanks to Gnuastro's minimal dependencies, the script is both flexible and portable. The figures of this research note are reproducible with Maneage, on the Git commit e31dd15.
- Publication:
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Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2515-5172/ad14f4
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2312.04263
- Bibcode:
- 2023RNAAS...7..269E
- Keywords:
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- Flux calibration;
- Astronomy software;
- Open source software;
- Astronomical techniques;
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Supplementary data on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10256845), project source on Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/gnuastro/papers/src/branch/zeropoint) and archived on Software Heritage (swh:1:dir:8b2d1f63be96de3de03aa3e2bb68fa7fa52df56f