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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

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,…

In recent years, observations have shown that multiple-star systems such as hierarchical triple and quadruple-star systems are common, especially among massive stars. They are potential sources of interesting astrophysical phenomena such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Adrian S. Hamers , Antti Rantala , Patrick Neunteufel , Holly Preece , Pavan Vynatheya

Aims. We present here a new theoretical approach to population synthesis. The aim is to predict colour magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for huge numbers of stars. With this method we generate synthetic CMDs for N-body simulations of galaxies.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Pasetto , C. Chiosi , D. Kawata

The synthpop package for R https://www.synthpop.org.uk provides tools to allow data custodians to create synthetic versions of confidential microdata that can be distributed with fewer restrictions than the original. The synthesis can be…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-16 Gillian M Raab , Beata Nowok , Chris Dibben

With Gaia Data Release 2, the astronomical community is entering a new era of multidimensional surveys of the Milky Way. This new phase-space view of our Galaxy demands new tools for comparing observations to simulations of Milky-Way-mass…

The stellar yields for galactic modeling applications (SYGMA) code is an open-source module that models the chemical ejecta and feedback of simple stellar populations (SSPs). It is intended for use in hydrodynamical simulations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Christian Ritter , Benoit Côté , Falk Herwig , Julio F. Navarro , Chris L. Fryer

Population synthesis is essential for individual-level simulation in transport planning and socio-economic analysis, yet remains challenging due to the need to capture both statistical dependencies and high-level behavioral semantics.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenlin Qin , Yancheng Ling , Leizhen Wang , Francisco Câmara Pereira , Zhenliang Ma

We present a new Galaxy population synthesis Model (GalMod). GalMod is a star-count model featuring an asymmetric bar/bulge as well as spiral arms and related extinction. The model, initially introduced in Pasetto et al. (2016b), has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Pasetto , E. K. Grebel , C. Chiosi , D. Crnojevic , P. Zeidler , G. Busso , L. P. Cassara , L. Piovan , R. Tantalo , C. Brogliato

Automatic code generation from natural language descriptions can be highly beneficial during the process of software development. In this work, we propose GAP-Gen, a Guided Automatic Python Code Generation method based on Python syntactic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Junchen Zhao , Yurun Song , Junlin Wang , Ian G. Harris

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

Fostered by upcoming data from new generation observational campaigns, we are about to enter a new era for the study of how galaxies form and evolve. The unprecedented quantity of data that will be collected, from distances only marginally…

We present GalSyn (Galaxy Synthesizer), a modular and flexible Python package for generating synthetic spectrophotometric observations from hydrodynamical galaxy simulations. GalSyn employs a particle-by-particle spectral modeling approach…

Models of stellar population synthesis (SPS) are the fundamental tool that relates the physical properties of a galaxy to its spectral energy distribution (SED). In this paper, we present DSPS: a python package for stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-20 Andrew P. Hearin , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Alex Alarcon , Matthew R. Becker , Andrew Benson

Retrieving the Star Formation History (SFH) of a galaxy out of its integrated spectrum is the central goal of stellar population synthesis. Recent advances in evolutionary synthesis models have given new breath to this old field of…

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

Whether considering rare astrophysical events on cosmological scales or unresolved stellar populations, accurate models must account for the integrated contribution from the entire history of star formation upon which that population is…

The majority of pulsar population synthesis studies performed to date have focused on isolated pulsar evolution. Those that have incorporated pulsar evolution within binary systems have tended to either treat binary evolution poorly of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley , Matthew Bailes , James Murray

The simulation of gravitational wave source populations and their progenitors is an endeavor more than eighty years in the making. This is in part due to a wide variety of theoretical uncertainties that must be taken into account when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Katelyn Breivik

We present an extension of the pop-cosmos model for the evolving galaxy population up to redshift $z\sim6$. The model is trained on distributions of observed colors and magnitudes, from 26-band photometry of $\sim420,000$ galaxies in the…