Imaging

Synthesizer can be used to generate spectral data cubes, photometric images and property maps. The underlying engines for these are

• SpectralCube objects, a container for a spaxel data cube. These provide functionality to create, manipulate and visualise spectral data cubes

• Image objects, containers for individual images providing functionality for generating, modifying and plotting individual images

• ImageCollection objects, containers for multiple Images which collect together and provide interfaces to work with related images.

In the documentation below we demonstrate producing spectral data cubes and photometric images from parametric and particle Galaxy objects, and producing property maps from particle distributions.

• Images From Galaxy Particle distributions
  • Getting the photometry
  • Noise arrays
  • Noise from standard deviations
  • Noise from an aperture depth
  • Noise from point source depth
• Images From Parametric Galaxies
  • Creating the image
  • Adding different morphologies together
• Spectral Data Cubes from Galaxy Particle distributions
  • Spectral Data Cube Creation
• Spectral Data Cubes from a Parametric Galaxy
  • Spectral Data Cube Creation
• Property maps
  • Stellar Mass maps
  • Metallicity maps
  • Age maps
  • SFR maps
  • sSFR maps
  • Making your own map