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I have two images of NGC 6946:

item       description        size (pixels)    scale (arcseconds/pixel)
 1.     70 micron MIPS FITS     241 x 241           4.5 
 2.     20 cm VLA FITS          512 x 512           2.0

I need to create a matrix with 2 columns (70 micron vs 20 cm), where each column will store the values at each pixel in such a way that the central pixel coordinate of each image coincides, so that I can plot for Radio/FIR correlation.

How should I perform such task in python?

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  • $\begingroup$ I've added the astropy tag on the off chance that it will apply. Do you want to interpolate one image to fit the other, since their pixel sizes aren't 1:1? Will you need to rotate one image to match the other as well? I reformatted a bit, feel free to edit further or roll-back. $\endgroup$
    – uhoh
    Nov 19, 2019 at 8:03
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    $\begingroup$ Thank you for formatting my question. I will keep this method in mind. Returning to the problem at hand, I want to create a 70 micron intensity (Jy) vs 20 cm intensity (Jy) plot and fit a curve through those points. $\endgroup$
    – user30981
    Nov 19, 2019 at 9:15
  • $\begingroup$ Right, you are hoping for pixel-for-pixel matching so that you can look for a correlation. They have different scales, so you'll need to at least interpolate first, since the pixel scales are different, (roughly 9:4). Is there some rotation difference, or are they both oriented exactly the same way (e.g. North = up)? $\endgroup$
    – uhoh
    Nov 19, 2019 at 12:24
  • $\begingroup$ Do the images have world co-ordinate system (WCS) in their headers? $\endgroup$
    – TazAstroSpacial
    Nov 22, 2019 at 6:17
  • $\begingroup$ Yes. Thank you. I have already done it. $\endgroup$
    – user30981
    Dec 17, 2019 at 0:17

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If you have the WCS for both images, you can use the astropy reproject module. Once you have projected image 1 onto image 2, the (x,y)th pixel from the output will correspond to the (x,y)th pixel from image 2.

Then you can flatten both images with numpy, and assemble them into a 2-column array.

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