ScopeSim Templates

Another tool from the A* Vienna software team

A library of templates and helper functions for creating scopesim.source.source.Source objects that can be used to run ScopeSim simulations.

In short scopesim.source.source.Source objects contain a description of the spatial and spectral information of the source. For more information see here.

Installation

This package has been released on PyPi:

pip install scopesim_templates

From basic to advanced helper functions

ScopeSim Templates is a python package, and is therefore by nature infinitely extendable.

As it is impossible for us to know all the details about your specific science case, we provide a small selection of basic objects (star cluster, elliptical galaxy, etc). A comprehensive list of those can be found below in the API reference (grouped into subpackages). Feel free to start with these to get started with ScopeSim.

However if your needs outgrow the basic objects, we encourage you to extended the objects to fit your specific science case. In this case we strongly encourage you to get in contact with us adding your code in the form of a subpackage. You can do this either by opening an issue on Github, or by emailing one of the developers.

Contact

If you find an issue with ScopeSim Templates, please let us know via the Github issues page

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Creation of a Source
  • Combining sources
  • ScopeSim_Templates
• Stellar Module
  • Stellar cluster
  • Star Grid and Field
  • Stars
• Extragalactic
• Source object interface
  • Input required for a Source object
  • Spatial description
  • Spectral description

TODO list

Todo

Set the cube to a different flux level and different pixel scales. Redshift the cube

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scopesim-templates/checkouts/stable/scopesim_templates/misc/misc.py:docstring of scopesim_templates.misc.misc.source_from_cube, line 6.)

Todo

Pass the header (or the WCS) to the source object

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scopesim-templates/checkouts/stable/scopesim_templates/misc/misc.py:docstring of scopesim_templates.misc.misc.source_from_file, line 3.)

Todo

Check if the image_hdu has WCS

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scopesim-templates/checkouts/stable/scopesim_templates/misc/misc.py:docstring of scopesim_templates.misc.misc.source_from_imagehdu, line 48.)

API reference

scopesim_templates.stellar	Templates to simulate stellar sources.
scopesim_templates.extragalactic	Templates to simulate extragalactic sources.
scopesim_templates.calibration.calibration	Contains simple source functions for testing and calibration.
scopesim_templates.misc.misc	Templates that could be used to simulate more general sources.