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simsurvey

Simulation tools for astronomical surveys (cadence, strategy).

PyPI

Python

Documentation: https://simsurvey.readthedocs.io/

Paper: Feindt et al. (2019)

Citing simsurvey: DOI

Installation

sudo pip install simsurvey

Requirements:

The required packages will be installed automatically if you install simsurvey using pip

  • astropy (pip install astropy)
  • sncosmo (pip install sncosmo)
  • propobject (pip install propobject)
  • sfdmap (pip install sfdmap)

Optional

  • matplotlib (pip install matplotlib) for plotting the survey results
  • healpy (pip install matplotlib) for using HEALPix-based sky maps Examples

Scripts to rerun the analysis performed in Feindt et al. (submitted) are available at https://github.com/ufeindt/simsurvey-paper-scripts

Further example notebooks can be found at https://github.com/ZwickyTransientFacility/simsurvey-examples