SED fitting codes
This is a non-exhaustive list of SED fitting codes. If you would like to add a code to this page, please contact us on slack (link below) by posting in the #sed-fitting-codes channel. A list of older codes (including a list of photo-z codes) is available at sedfitting.org.
1. (quadratic minimization) (Faber, 1972)
2. LePhare (Arnouts et al., 1999; Ilbert et al., 2006) - code available at https://gitlab.lam.fr/Galaxies/LEPHARE
3. MOPED (Heavens et al., 2000) - code available at https://github.com/heatherprince/cosmoped
4. zphot (Fontana et al., 2000; Merlin et al., 2019)
5. FITSED (Papovich et al., 2001; Salmon et al., 2015)
6. SINOPSIS (Poggianti et al., 2001; Fritz et al., 2014) - code available at https://www.irya.unam.mx/gente/j.fritz/JFhp/SINOPSIS.html
7. pPXF (Cappellari and Emsellem, 2004; Cappellari, 2023) - code available at https://pypi.org/project/ppxf/
8. CHORIZOS (Ma´ız-Apell´aniz, 2004)
9. Starlight (Cid Fernandes et al., 2005) - code available at http://www.starlight.ufsc.br/
10. Stecmap (Ocvirk et al., 2006) - code available at https://github.com/pocvirk/STECKMAP
11. VESPA (Tojeiro et al., 2007) - code available at http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/vespa/
12. eazy (and eazypy) (Brammer et al., 2008; Brammer, 2023) https://eazy-py.readthedocs.io
13. MAGPHYS (da Cunha et al., 2008; Battisti et al., 2019) - code available at http://www.iap.fr/magphys/
14. GOSSIP (Franzetti et al., 2008) - code available at https://ascl.net/1210.003
15. FAST (Kriek et al., 2009; Aird et al., 2017) - code available at https://github.com/jamesaird/FAST
16. ULySS (Koleva et al., 2009) - code available at http://ulyss.univ-lyon1.fr/
17. GalMC / SpeedyMC (Acquaviva et al., 2011, 2015)
18. SEDfit (Sawicki, 2012)
19. (semi-analytic SFHs) (Pacifici et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2024)
20. (manifold learning; SOMs) (Geach, 2012; Masters et al., 2015; Hemmati et al., 2019) - code available at https://ascl.net/1404.014
21. CMCIRSED (Casey, 2012) - code available at https://www.as.utexas.edu/∼cmcasey/cmcirsed.html
22. iSEDfit (Moustakas et al., 2013) - code available at https://github.com/moustakas/iSEDfit
23. SED3FIT (Berta et al., 2013) https://cosmos.astro.caltech.edu/page/other-tools
24. BayeSED (Han and Han, 2014; Han et al., 2023) https://github.com/hanyk/BayeSED3/
25. SEABASs (Rovilos et al., 2014; Toba et al., 2018)
26. IZI (Blanc et al., 2015) - code available at https://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/gblancm/izi/
27. Beagle / Beagle-AGN (Chevallard and Charlot, 2016; Vidal-Garc´ıa et al., 2024) - code available at https://www.iap.fr/beagle/
28. pipe3d / fit3d (S´anchez et al., 2016; Lacerda et al., 2022) - code available at https://gitlab.com/pipe3d/pyPipe3D
29. AGNFitter / AGNFitter-RX (Calistro Rivera et al., 2016; Mart´ınez-Ram´ırez et al., 2024) - code available at https://github.com/GabrielaCR/AGNfitter
30. dense basis (Iyer and Gawiser, 2017; Iyer et al., 2019) - code available at https://dense-basis.readthedocs.io
31. Prospector (Leja et al., 2017; Johnson et al., 2021) - code available at https://prospect.readthedocs.io
32. Lightning (Eufrasio et al., 2017; Doore et al., 2023) - code available at https://github.com/rafaeleufrasio/lightning
33. Firefly (Wilkinson et al., 2017; Neumann et al., 2022) - code available at https://github.com/FireflySpectra/firefly release
34. FADO (Gomes and Papaderos, 2017) - code available at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/603/A63
35. ALF (Conroy et al., 2018; Oyarz´un et al., 2023) - code available at https://github.com/cconroy20/alf
36. BAGPIPES (Carnall et al., 2018) - code available at https://bagpipes.readthedocs.io
37. Mr-Moose (Drouart and Falkendal, 2018) - code available at https://github.com/gdrouart/MrMoose
38. CIGALE / X-CIGALE (Boquien et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2020) - code available at https://cigale.lam.fr/
39. FortesFit (Rosario, 2019) - code available at https://github.com/vikalibrate/FortesFit
40. PEGASE.3 (Fioc and Rocca-Volmerange, 2019) - code available at https://www2.iap.fr/users/fioc/Pegase/Pegase.3/
41. michi2 (Liu et al., 2019) - code available at https://github.com/1054/Crab.Toolkit.michi2
42. (approximate Bayesian computation) (Aufort et al., 2020)
43. ProSpect (Robotham et al., 2020) - code available at https://github.com/asgr/ProSpect; Online SED explorer at https://prospect.icrar.org/
44. MCsed (Bowman et al., 2020) - code available at https://mcsed.readthedocs.io
45. pixedfit (Abdurro’uf et al., 2021) - code available at https://pixedfit.readthedocs.io
46. Mirkwood (Gilda et al., 2021) - code available at https://github.com/astrogilda/mirkwood
47. IRAGNSEP (Bernhard et al., 2021) - code available at https://pypi.org/project/iragnsep/
48. Starduster (Qiu and Kang, 2022) - code available at https://github.com/yqiuu/starduster
49. (semi-analytic spectral fitting) (Zhou et al., 2022)
50. SedFlow/PROVABGS (Hahn and Melchior, 2022; Hahn et al., 2023) - code available at https://github.com/changhoonhahn/SEDflow
and https://github.com/changhoonhahn/provabgs
51. parrot.jl (neural emulators) (Mathews et al., 2023) - code available at https://github.com/elijahmathews/MathewsEtAl2023
52. (simulation based inference) (Iglesias-Navarro et al., 2024)
53. SMART (Varnava and Efstathiou, 2024) - code available at https://github.com/ch-var/SMART
54. Starnet (CNN) (Woo et al., 2024)
55. pop-cosmos (Alsing et al., 2024; Thorp et al., 2024)
56. GalaPy (Ronconi et al., 2024) - code available at https://galapy.readthedocs.io