python¶
Radiative transfer and ionisation code¶
Python is a Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code designed to simulate the spectrum of biconical (or spherical) winds in disk systems. It was origianally written by Long and Knigge (2002) and was intended for simulating the spectra of winds in cataclysmic variables. Since then, it has also been used to simulate the spectra of systems ranging from young stellar objects to AGN.
The name Python is today unfortunate, and changing the name is an ongoing debate within the development team. The program is written in C and can be compiled on systems runining various flavors of linux, including OSX on Macs.
The code is is available on github
Documentation¶
Various documentation exists:
- A Quick Guide describing how to install and run Python (in a fairly mechanistic fashion).
For more information on how this page was generated and how to create documentation for python, look at the page for documentation on the documentation.
Authors¶
The authors of the python code and their institutions are:
- Knox Long
- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Eureka Scientific, Inc., 2452 Delmer St., Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA
- Christian Knigge
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- Stuart Sim
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK
- Nick Higginbottom
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- James Matthews
- University of Oxford, Astrophysics, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
- Sam Mangham
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- Edward Parkinson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- Mandy Hewitt
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK