Articles tagged with 'cosmology'

Resource: pyflation

Description: Calculate cosmological perturbations during inflation
Homepage URL: http://pyflation.ianhuston.net/

Pyflation is a Python package for calculating cosmological perturbations during an inflationary expansion of the universe. Pyflation has been created by Ian Huston as part of his research activities at Queen Mary, University of London.

It is released under an open source modified BSD license and is available for download. Detailed information about the numerical calculations ...

Posted by aldcroft

Resource: yt

Description: Analyze and visualize astrophysical simulations
Homepage URL: http://yt.enzotools.org/

yt is an analysis and visualization toolkit for Adaptive Mesh Refinement data.  yt provides full support for Enzo, Orion, and FLASH codes, with preliminary support for RAMSES, ART, Chombo, CASTRO and MAESTRO codes.  It can be used to create many common types of data products such as:

  • Slices
  • Projections
  • Profiles
  • Arbitrary Data Selection
  • Cosmological Analysis
  • Halo ...

Posted by aldcroft

Resource: CosmoloPy

Description: a cosmology package for Python
Homepage URL: http://roban.github.com/CosmoloPy/
Version: 0.1.001

CosmoloPy is a package of cosmology routines for Python, designed for use with NumPy and SciPy. Reionization is a particular focus. See below for a longer list of capabilities.

Functions take cosmological parameters (which can be numpy arrays) as keywords, and ignore any extra keywords. This means you can make a ...

Posted by virtualastronomer

Resource: PANDORA

Description: Programs for AstroNomical Data Organization Reduction and Analysis
Homepage URL: Pandora Software at IASF
Version: various

Programs for AstroNomical Data Organization Reduction and Analysis is a suite of Python modules for a number of astronomical methods ranging from the visualization and analysis of spectra to SED fitting to instrument specific reduction packages. A short list with descriptions includes:

Posted by virtualastronomer

Resource: esutil

Description: Package focused on numerical python, statistics, file i/o with astronomy specific modules.
Homepage URL: http://code.google.com/p/esutil/
Version: SVN Only

In addition to the astronomy related tools (listed below from the code repository), this package includes (but is not limited to) utilities covering XML/JSON io, numpy record & structured arrays, and an IDL-like histogram statistics tool.

Astronomy related tools:

Posted by virtualastronomer