The files in this directory are multi-Gaussian approximations to Sersic profiles, as computed by the file optimize_mixture_profiles.py in TheTractor: https://github.com/davidwhogg/TheTractor For more information on why this is a useful idea, and how to select which one to use, please see Hogg and Lang 2012: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6563 The pickled objects themselves are numpy.ndarray objects of size 2K, in which the first K elements are the amplitudes, the last K elements are the variances, and K is the number of Gaussian components in the approximation. The filenames are of the form "_K_MR". The maximum radius is the maximum radius used when optimizing the approximation, in units of the profile's half-light radius.