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Source Finding Application (SoFiA)

SoFiA (from Greek σοφία = wisdom), the Source Finding Application, is an 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.

Downloads

SoFiA 2

Current stable release: SoFiA 2.6
Latest development version – may be unstable
SoFiA User Manual (PDF)
More information: GitLab repository and wiki

SoFiA 1

SoFiA 1 is no longer being maintained and has been archived on GitLab.

Screenshots

SoFiA screenshot — **Figure 1:** Two screenshots of SoFiA showing the output of a pipeline run in the KDE terminal emulator, konsole, under Linux (left) and a view of the built-in help system (right).

Publications

If you find SoFiA useful and intend to use it in your own research, I would appreciate a reference to the following two SoFiA papers in any publication resulting from your work:

SoFiA: a flexible source finder for 3D spectral line data
Serra, P., Westmeier, T., Giese, N., et al., 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1922
(ADS | arXiv)
SoFiA 2 – An automated, parallel H Ⅰ source finding pipeline for the WALLABY survey
Westmeier, T., Kitaeff, S., Pallot, D., et al., 2021, MNRAS, 506, 3962
(ADS | arXiv)