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MCMAC

Monte Carlo Merger Analysis Code (MCMAC)

This code was originally written by Will Dawson and a major focus of his 2012 paper: The Dynamics of Merging Clusters: A Monte Carlo Solution Applied to the Bullet and Musket Ball Clusters (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1210.0014D).

The code essentially takes observed priors on each subcluster's mass, radial velocity, and projected separation, draws randomly from those priors and uses them in a analytic model to get posterior PDF's for merger dynamic properties of interest (e.g. collision velocity, time since collision).

Dependencies:

  • Standard
    • numpy
    • scipy
  • MCC utilities (see git://github.com/MCTwo/MCCutils.git)
    • profiles
    • cosmo

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