fithalo

A flexible and interactive python program for performing rotation curve decomposition analysis and creating publication-ready plots.

Files

• README.md: this file

• CodeBook.md: documentation for the program

• fithalo.py: python script which performs the rotation curve decomposition analysis

• galaxy.dat: example output text file

• galaxy.png: example output figure

• galaxy.rot: example input text file

Running the Code

1. Copy this repository to a local directory.

2. Type 'python fithalo.py path_to_file/filename' on the command line.

Dependencies

fithalo.py makes use of the following packages:

• sys
• os
• pandas
• numpy
• scipy
• matplotlib