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🏠 Professor at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia (UWA) (https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/aaron-robotham).
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📖 PhD from University of Bristol (UK).
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🔭 I’m currently working on all things to do with large astronomy surveys, in particular GAMA (Project Scientist) and WAVES (Project Scientist for WAVES-Wide).
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📝 Publications: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/user/libraries/aiv7eTyxRsCqB7jtDJw1YQ]
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📫 Feel free to reach me out aaron.robotham@uwa.edu.au
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My recent focus on GitHub has been my astronomy-centric ProTools suite:
| Package | Status | Description |
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| celestial |  |
Core astronomy routines (coordinates, cosmology, etc) |
| Highlander |  |
Bayesian optimisation combining CMA-ES and MCMC |
| hyper.fit |  |
N-dimensional hyperplane fitting with errors |
| magicaxis |  |
Pretty scientific plotting and axis formatting |
| ParmOff |  |
Flexible function argument matching |
| ProFit |  |
Bayesian galaxy image profile fitting |
| ProFound |  |
Source extraction and photometry |
| ProFuse |  |
Multi-band galaxy fitting (ProFound + ProFit + ProSpect) |
| ProGeny |  |
Simple Stellar Population library generation |
| ProPane |  |
Image warping, stacking, and registration |
| ProSpect |  |
Spectral energy distribution generation and fitting |
| ProSpectData |  |
Required data (e.g. SSPs) for ProSpect |
| ProUtils |  |
Shared low-level utilities for ProTools |
| Rfits |  |
FITS file I/O for images, tables, and headers |
| Rwcs |  |
World Coordinate System projections and conversions |
| sphereplot |  |
Spherical coordinate plotting |
Other significant packages:
| Package | Status | Description |
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| imager |  |
Image processing based on Cimg |
| whatsup |  |
Astronomy observability package (see whatsup) |