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IVISIT is a generic interactive visual simulation tool that is based on Python/Numpy and can be used for system simulation, parameter optimization, parameter management, and visualization of system dynamics as required, for example,for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Andreas Knoblauch

Hydrodynamical simulations are increasingly able to accurately model physical systems on stellar, galactic, and cosmological scales, however, the utility of these simulations is often limited by our ability to directly compare them with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Cameron Hummels , Britton Smith , Devin Silvia

We describe the open-source global fitting package GAMBIT: the Global And Modular Beyond-the-Standard-Model Inference Tool. GAMBIT combines extensive calculations of observables and likelihoods in particle and astroparticle physics with a…

An interactive binary star system simulation was developed to be showcased on an educational platform. The main purpose of the project is to provide insight into the orbital mechanics of such star systems with the help of a three-body…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-10-27 Ayse Pelin Dedeler , Canberk Soytekin

Tkwant is a Python package for the simulation of quantum nanoelectronics devices to which external time-dependent perturbations are applied. Tkwant is an extension of the Kwant package (https://kwant-project.org/) and can handle the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Thomas Kloss , Joseph Weston , Benoit Gaury , Benoit Rossignol , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

$clustertools$ is a Python package for analyzing star cluster simulations. The package is built around the $StarCluster$ class, which stores all data read in from the snapshot of a given model star cluster. The package contains functions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-22 Jeremy J. Webb

Astrochemical modeling is needed for understanding the formation and evolution of interstellar molecules, and for extracting physical information from spectroscopic observations of interstellar clouds. The modeling usually involves handling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Fujun Du

This manual accompanies the release of the particle data for 24 simulations of the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation by the virgo consortium. It describes how to download these snapshots and how to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-03 The EAGLE team

Automated searches for strong gravitational lensing in optical imaging survey datasets often employ machine learning and deep learning approaches. These techniques require more example systems to train the algorithms than have presently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Robert Morgan , Brian Nord , Simon Birrer , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Jason Poh

Simulating physical systems is a core component of scientific computing, encompassing a wide range of physical domains and applications. Recently, there has been a surge in data-driven methods to complement traditional numerical simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Karl Otness , Arvi Gjoka , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo , Benjamin Peherstorfer , Teseo Schneider , Denis Zorin

Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

With more and more digital media, especially in the field of virtual reality where detailed and convincing scenes are much required, procedural scene generation is a big helping tool for artists. A problem is that defining scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Drazen Lucanin

This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 J. A. Sellwood

We present a Python package called Modular Petri Net Assembly Toolkit (MPAT) that empowers users to easily create large-scale, modular Petri Nets for various spatial configurations, including extensive spatial grids or those derived from…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Stefano Chiaradonna , Petar Jevtic , Beckett Sterner

Molecular dynamics simulations play an increasingly important role in the rational design of (nano)-materials and in the study of biomacromolecules. However, generating input files and realistic starting coordinates for these simulations is…

This paper presents an open-source, lightweight, yet comprehensive software framework, named RPC, which integrates physics-based simulators, planning and control libraries, debugging tools, and a user-friendly operator interface. RPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seung Hyeon Bang , Carlos Gonzalez , Gabriel Moore , Dong Ho Kang , Mingyo Seo , Luis Sentis

We present here an overview of PulsarSpectrum, a program that simulates the gamma ray emission from pulsars. This simulator reproduces not only the basic features of the observed gamma ray pulsars, but it can also simulate more detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Razzano , L. Latronico , N. Omodei , G. Spandre

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

The Visual Physics Analysis (VISPA) project integrates different aspects of physics analyses into a graphical development environment. It addresses the typical development cycle of (re-)designing, executing and verifying an analysis. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-09-10 H. -P. Bretz , M. Brodski , M. Erdmann , R. Fischer , A. Hinzmann , T. Klimkovich , D. Klingebiel , M. Komm , J. Lingemann , G. Müller , T. Münzer , M. Rieger , J. Steggemann , T. Winchen