[task #16385] King profile in MakeProfiles

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
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                 Summary: King profile in MakeProfiles
                   Group: GNU Astronomy Utilities
               Submitter: makhlaghi
               Submitted: Wed 05 Jul 2023 05:50:36 PM BST
         Should Start On: Wed 05 Jul 2023 12:00:00 AM BST
   Should be Finished on: Wed 05 Jul 2023 12:00:00 AM BST
                Category: MakeProfiles
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00


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Date: Wed 05 Jul 2023 05:50:36 PM BST By: Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
The [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962AJ.....67..471K King profile] is a
parametric profile that is used for
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster globular clusters]. 

Ariane Lançon has kindly prepared the attached King.pdf file for the
experiences she had with it. It is based on the Astropy implementation of this
function
[https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.modeling.functional_models.KingProjectedAnalytic1D.html
KingProjectedAnalytic1D] (see the function under "Notes").

Fortunately the structure of MakeProfiles is sufficiently modular to allow
easy addition of this profile to the rest: the functional form of all the
recognized profiles are in
[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuastro.git/tree/bin/mkprof/profiles.c
bin/mkprof/profiles.c].






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