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We present SynthPop, a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. Motivated by a lack flexibility in existing Galactic models,…

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I present StarEstate, an open-source Python package for producing rapid, statistically robust galactic population synthesis models. By utilizing optimized pre-calculated inverse-cumulative distribution function samplers, the tool generates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Amedeo Romagnolo

We have produced a new software package for the simulation of pulsar populations, \textsc{PsrPopPy}, based on the \textsc{Psrpop} package. The codebase has been re-written in Python (save for some external libraries, which remain in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sam Bates , Duncan Lorimer , Akshaya Rane , Joe Swiggum

Stellar population synthesis is a crucial methodology in astrophysics, enabling the interpretation of the integrated light of galaxies and stellar clusters. By combining empirical and/or theoretical libraries of the spectral energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Pablo Corcho-Caballero , Yago Ascasibar , Daniel Jiménez-López

Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parametrized…

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…

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We present cogsworth, an open-source Python tool for producing self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations. With cogsworth one can (1) sample a population of binaries and star formation history, (2) perform rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Tom Wagg , Katelyn Breivik , Mathieu Renzo , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

Comparison with artificial galaxy models is essential for translating the incomplete and low signal-to-noise data we can obtain on astrophysical stellar populations to physical interpretations which describe their composition, physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Elizabeth R. Stanway

We present the software package binary_c-python which provides a convenient and easy-to-use interface to the binary_c framework, allowing the user to rapidly evolve individual systems and populations of stars. binary_c-python is available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 D. D. Hendriks , R. G. Izzard

The discovery of the first two macroscopic interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the Solar System has opened entirely new perspectives in planetary science. The exploration of these objects offers a qualitatively new insight into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Dušan Marčeta

Population censuses are vital to public policy decision-making. They provide insight into human resources, demography, culture, and economic structure at local, regional, and national levels. However, such surveys are very expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bhavesh Neekhra , Kshitij Kapoor , Debayan Gupta

The prevalence of AI-generated imagery has raised concerns about the authenticity of astronomical images, especially with advanced text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion producing highly realistic synthetic samples. Existing detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mohammed Talha Alam , Raza Imam , Mohsen Guizani , Fakhri Karray

We present EzGal, a flexible python program designed to easily generate observable parameters (magnitudes, colors, mass-to-light ratios) for any stellar population synthesis (SPS) model. As has been demonstrated by various authors, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Conor Mancone , Anthony Gonzalez

Simulating a survey of fluxes and redshifts (distances) from an astrophysical population is a routine task. \texttt{popsynth} provides a generic, object-oriented framework to produce synthetic surveys from various distributions and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-20 J. Michael Burgess , Francesca Capel

We present SPISEA (Stellar Population Interface for Stellar Evolution and Atmospheres), an open-source Python package that simulates simple stellar populations. The strength of SPISEA is its modular interface which offers the user control…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 M. W. Hosek , J. R. Lu , C. Y. Lam , A. K. Gautam , K. E. Lockhart , D. Kim , S. Jia

I developed a new pure-python pipeline to reduce photometric and polarimetric data: ASTROPOP. It has been designed and optimized to work fully automated with the IAGPOL polarimeter of Pico dos Dias observatory (OPD, Brazil) and can reduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Julio Cesar Neves Campagnolo

We have developed a method for fast and accurate stellar population parameters determination in order to apply it to high resolution galaxy spectra. The method is based on an optimization technique that combines active learning with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Thamar Solorio , Olac Fuentes , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich

We introduce PyMGal, a Python package for generating optical mock observations of galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations. PyMGal reads the properties of stellar particles from these simulations and generates spectral energy distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Patrick Janulewicz , Weiguang Cui

SkyPy is an open-source Python package for simulating the astrophysical sky. It comprises a library of physical and empirical models across a range of observables and a command-line script to run end-to-end simulations. The library provides…

We find ourselves on the brink of an exciting era in observational astrophysics, driven by groundbreaking facilities like JWST, Euclid, Rubin, Roman, SKA, or ELT. Simultaneously, computational astrophysics has shown significant strides,…

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