Published September 16, 2018 | Version v1.0
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bettermoments: A robust method to measure line centroids

  • 1. University of Michigan
  • 2. Flatiron Institute

Description

Initial release of `bettermoments`, a robust way to measure the centroid of a line profile for sources believed to be well described by a single kinematical component.

As an alternative to traditional 'first moment maps' which take the intensity weighted averaged velocity (or frequency), `bettermoments` finds the pixel of maximum intensity and fits a quadratic to this pixel and the two neighboring pixels. It has been shown in the context of PSF fitting this that approach yields near-optimal precision.

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