[gnuastro-devel] [bug #54526] Invalid r, q and truncation of point profiles in MakeProfiles

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
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                 Summary: Invalid r, q and truncation of point profiles in
MakeProfiles
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Fri 17 Aug 2018 12:25:19 AM CEST
                Category: MakeProfiles
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Output not reasonable
                  Status: In Progress
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: makhlaghi
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When unreasonable values are given (for example a radius equal or smaller than
zero to certain column values MakeProfiles aborts with a notice to the users.
This is a good warning and can help avoid unexpected behavior (for example the
user specifying a column by mistake).

But when the profile doesn't need a parameter, such checks only cause
confusion (for example for a point profile, which never uses the radius, axis
ratio or truncation values), these warnings make no sense and are only
confusing. 

We should add checks to only check the validity of a column value when it is
relevant to the given profile.

This issue was reported by Michael Stein.




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