Synthesizer is a python package for generating synthetic astrophysical spectra. It is intended to be modular, flexible and fast.
Here are just some examples of what synthesizer can do:
- generate spectra for parametric star formation and metal enrichment histories
- generate spectra for galaxies from particle-based cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
- measure spectral diagnostics for given spectra
- easily compare stellar population synthesis models
- apply screen dust models to intrinsic spectra
Read the documentation here.
First clone the latest version of synthesizer
git clone https://github.com/flaresimulations/synthesizer.git
To install, enter the synthesizer directory and install with pip. On unix:
cd synthesizer
pip install .
Make sure you stay up to date with the latest versions through git:
git pull origin main
Please see here for contribution guidelines.
A code paper is currently in preparation. For now please cite Vijayan et al. 2021 if you use the functionality for producing photometry, and Wilkins et al. 2020 if you use the line emission functionality.
@article{10.1093/mnras/staa3715,
author = {Vijayan, Aswin P and Lovell, Christopher C and Wilkins, Stephen M and Thomas, Peter A and Barnes, David J and Irodotou, Dimitrios and Kuusisto, Jussi and Roper, William J},
title = "{First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- II: The photometric properties of high-redshift galaxies}",
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
volume = {501},
number = {3},
pages = {3289-3308},
year = {2020},
month = {11},
issn = {0035-8711},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/staa3715},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3715},
eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/501/3/3289/35651856/staa3715.pdf},
}
@article{10.1093/mnras/staa649,
author = {Wilkins, Stephen M and Lovell, Christopher C and Fairhurst, Ciaran and Feng, Yu and Matteo, Tiziana Di and Croft, Rupert and Kuusisto, Jussi and Vijayan, Aswin P and Thomas, Peter},
title = "{Nebular-line emission during the Epoch of Reionization}",
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
volume = {493},
number = {4},
pages = {6079-6094},
year = {2020},
month = {03},
issn = {0035-8711},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/staa649},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa649},
eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/493/4/6079/32980291/staa649.pdf},
}