SoFiA
Introduction
SoFiA (from Greek σοφία = wisdom), the Source Finding Application, is a new H i source finding pipeline for detecting and characterising galaxies in three-dimensional H i data cubes. SoFiA is the source finding pipeline of choice for several extragalactic H i surveys, including WALLABY, the ASKAP all-sky H i survey. The source code of SoFiA is freely available on GitLab.
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SoFiA 2
Current stable release: SoFiA 2.5.0- Latest development version – may be unstable
- SoFiA 2 User Manual (PDF)
- More information: GitLab page and wiki
SoFiA 1
- SoFiA 1 is no longer being maintained and has been archived on GitLab.
Acknowledgement
If you find SoFiA useful and intend to use it for your own research, we would appreciate a reference to the following two SoFiA papers in any publication resulting from that work:
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SoFiA: a flexible source finder for 3D spectral line data
Serra, P., Westmeier, T., Giese, N., Jurek, R., Flöer, L, Popping, A., Winkel, B., van der Hulst, J. M., Meyer, M., Koribalski, B. S., Staveley-Smith, L., Courtois, H., 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1922 -
SoFiA 2 – An automated, parallel H i source finding pipeline for the WALLABY survey
Westmeier, T., Kitaeff, S., Pallot, D., Serra, P., van der Hulst, J. M., Jurek, R. J., Elagali, A., For, B.-Q., Kleiner, D., Koribalski, B. S., Lee-Waddell, K., Mould, J. R., Reynolds, T. N., Rhee, J., Staveley-Smith, L., 2021, MNRAS, 506, 3962