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We present a new version of our code for modeling the atmospheric circulation on gaseous exoplanets, now employing a "double-gray" radiative transfer scheme, which self-consistently solves for fluxes and heating throughout the atmosphere,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Emily Rauscher , Kristen Menou

The significance of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line as a probe of the high-redshift Universe has long been established. Originating mainly in the vicinity of young, massive stars and in association with accretion of large bulks of matter, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Peter Laursen

I present RoadRunner, a fast exoplanet transit model that can use any radially symmetric function to model stellar limb darkening while still being faster to evaluate than the analytical transit model for quadratic limb darkening by Mandel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Hannu Parviainen

NEMESISPY is a Python package developed to perform parametric atmospheric modelling and radiative transfer calculation for the retrievals of exoplanetary spectra. It is a recent development of the well-established Fortran NEMESIS library…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Jingxuan Yang , Juan Alday , Patrick Irwin

An open-source, Python-based Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor simulation and processing program is introduced. TAPsolver utilizes algorithmic differentiation for the calculation of highly accurate derivatives, which are used to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Adam Yonge , M. Ross Kunz , Rakesh Batchu , Zongtang Fang , Tobin Issac , Rebecca Fushimi , Andrew J. Medford

$\gamma$-ray pulsar halos, most likely formed by inverse Compton scattering of electrons and positrons propagating in the pulsar-surrounding interstellar medium with background photons, serve as an ideal probe for Galactic cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Kun Fang

PetroFit is an open-source Python package, based on Astropy and Photutils, that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Robel Geda , Steven Crawford , Lucas R. Hunt , Matthew A. Bershady , Erik J. Tollerud , Solohery M. Randriamampandry

We present brutus, an open source Python package for quickly deriving stellar properties, distances, and reddenings to stars based on grids of stellar models constrained by photometric and astrometric data. We outline the statistical…

EllipSect is a user-friendly analysis and measurement tool, implemented in Python, that operates on the imaging data together with the output of the widely used 2D surface-brightness fitting code GALFIT 3. It produces publication-quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Christopher Añorve , Omar Ulises Reyes-Amador , Emmanuel Ríos-López , Diego de Ramón Tadeo , Omar López-Cruz

The recomputability and reproducibility of results from scientific software requires access to both the source code and all associated input and output data. However, the full collection of these resources often does not accompany the key…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Christian T. Jacobs , Alexandros Avdis , Gerard J. Gorman , Matthew D. Piggott

Average-atom models are an important tool in studying matter under extreme conditions, such as those conditions experienced in planetary cores, brown and white dwarfs, and during inertial confinement fusion. In the right context,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Timothy J. Callow , Daniel Kotik , Eli Kraisler , Attila Cangi

This paper describes the design and implementation of our new multi-group, multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code Fornax and provides a suite of code tests to validate its application in a wide range of physical regimes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Joshua C. Dolence , Adam Burrows , David Radice , David Vartanyan

We present piXedfit, pixelized spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, a Python package that provides tools for analyzing spatially resolved properties of galaxies using multiband imaging data alone or in combination with integral field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Abdurro'uf , Yen-Ting Lin , Po-Feng Wu , Masayuki Akiyama

Higher resolution telescopes as well as 3D numerical simulations will require the development of detailed 3D radiative transfer calculations. Building upon our previous work we extend our method to include both continuum and line transfer.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

Since its launch, TESS has provided high cadence observations for objects across the sky. Although high cadence TESS observations provide a unique possibility to study the rapid time evolution of numerous objects, artifacts in the data make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 R. Ridden-Harper , A. Rest , R. Hounsell , T. E. Müller-Bravo , Q. Wang , V. A. Villar

Physical insight into a material can be first gained by its color since the reflectance spectrum from an object reflects its microstructure and complex reflective indices. We here present a comprehensive overview of electrodynamics and…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Dongik Lee , Seunghun Lee

The generalized spherical Radon transform associates the mean values over spherical tori to a function $f$ defined on $\mathbb{S}^3 \subset \mathbb{H}$, where the elements of $\mathbb{S}^3$ are considered as quaternions representing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bernstein , R. Hielscher , H. Schaeben

Mathematical models allow us to gain a deeper understanding of real-world dynamical systems. One of the most powerful mathematical frameworks for modeling real-world phenomena are systems of differential equations. In the majority of fields…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-02 Richard Gast , Thomas R. Knösche , Ann Kennedy

We introduce the radiative transfer postprocessing code Subsweep. The code is based on the method of transport sweeps, in which the exact solution to the scattering-less radiative transfer equation is computed in a single pass through the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Toni Peter , Joseph S. W. Lewis , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover , Guido Kanschat