Chapter 1: Galaxies

In chapter 1, we introduce you to galaxy morphology, structure and the core PyAutoGalaxy API.

Binder links to every tutorial are included.

The chapter contains the following tutorials:

Tutorial 0: Visualization - Setting up PyAutoGalaxy’s visualization library.

Tutorial 1: Grids - Uniform grids of (y,x) coordinates used for evaluating galaxy emission.

Tutorial 2: Profiles - Analytic profiles representing light distributions.

Tutorial 3: Galaxies - Making galaxy objects out of light profiles.

Tutorial 4: Data - Loading and inspecting telescope imaging data of a galaxy.

Tutorial 5: Fitting - Fitting data with a galaxy model.

Tutorial 6: Summary - A summary of the chapter.