Probabilistic 3D Reconstruction of Spectral Line Observations.
pomme is a python package that allows you to create probabilistic 3D reconstructions of astronomical spectral line observations.
Observations of spectral lines are indespensible in astronomy, since they encode a wealth of information about the physical and chemical conditions of the medium from which they originate. Their narrow extent in frequency space make them very sensitive to Doppler shifts, such that their shape encodes the motion of the medium along the line of sight. As a result, given a good model for the line formation process and an inversion method, these physical and chemical properties can be retrieved from observations. Currently, we mainly focus on retrieving the distributions of the abundance of the chemical species producing the line, the velocity field, and its kinetic temperature. However, also other parameters can be retrieved.
More information about the model, our methods, and their implementation can be found in De Ceuster et al. 2024.
pomme is built on top of PyTorch and benefits a lot from functionality provided by Astropy. It is currently developed and maintained by Frederik De Ceuster at KU Leuven.
Get the latest release (version 0.0.16) either from PyPI, using pip, with:
pip install pomme
or from Anaconda.org, using conda, with:
conda install -c freddeceuster pomme
or download the source code, unzip, and install with pip by executing:
pip install .
in the root directory of the code.
Documentation with examples can be found at pomme.readthedocs.io.
Please report any issues with this software or its documentation here.
We are open to contributions to pomme. More information can be found here.
We are always interested in collaborating! If you like our work but it needs some tailoring for your specific use case feel free to contact me.
Frederik De Ceuster is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), grant number 1253223N, and was previously supported for this research by a Postdoctoral Mandate (PDM) from KU Leuven, grant number PDMT2/21/066.