ASCL Code Record
[ascl:1804.008]
EGG: Empirical Galaxy Generator
Schreiber, C.; Elbaz, D.; Pannella, M.; Merlin, E.; Castellano, M.; Fontana, A.; Bourne, N.; Boutsia, K.; Cullen, F.; Dunlop, J.; Ferguson, H. C.; Michałowski, M. J.; Okumura, K.; Santini, P.; Shu, X. W.; Wang, T.; White, C.
The Empirical Galaxy Generator (EGG) generates fake galaxy catalogs and images with realistic positions, morphologies and fluxes from the far-ultraviolet to the far-infrared. The catalogs are generated by egg-gencat and stored in binary FITS tables (column oriented). Another program, egg-2skymaker, is used to convert the generated catalog into ASCII tables suitable for ingestion by SkyMaker (ascl:1010.066) to produce realistic high resolution images (e.g., Hubble-like), while egg-gennoise and egg-genmap can be used to generate the low resolution images (e.g., Herschel-like). These tools can be used to test source extraction codes, or to evaluate the reliability of any map-based science (stacking, dropout identification, etc.).
- Code site:
- https://cschreib.github.io/egg/ https://github.com/cschreib/egg
- Used in:
- https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.467.1360B https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A&A...609A..30S
- Described in:
- https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017A%26A...602A..96S
- Bibcode:
- 2018ascl.soft04008S
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