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Fitting a rotation curve

velfit is a task to fit a rotation curve to an isovelocity image of a rotating disk. This is classical ``moment analysis''.

inten is the (x,y) intensity distribution of data.cube integrated over the z (velocity) axis. It is obtained using moment

as follows:

veloc is an (x,y) model for the velocity values, a mean velocity image. It would be obtained as follows:


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