Spectacle

A module for generating spectra from cosmological simulations. Uses schwimmbad for flexible parallelisation.

Installation

First set the following environment variable in your .bashrc (or .cshrc) to the location of the cloned package:

export SPECTACLE_HOME=/your/package/directory/spectacle

Then you can install using the setup.py script:

python setup.py install

Documentation

Read the docs here.

Citation

If you use this software, please cite this paper using the following:

@article{10.1093/mnras/stz2851,
    author = {Lovell, Christopher C and Acquaviva, Viviana and Thomas, Peter A and Iyer, Kartheik G and Gawiser, Eric and Wilkins, Stephen M},
    title = "{Learning the relationship between galaxies spectra and their star formation histories using convolutional neural networks and cosmological simulations}",
    journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
    volume = {490},
    number = {4},
    pages = {5503-5520},
    year = {2019},
    month = {10},
    issn = {0035-8711},
    doi = {10.1093/mnras/stz2851},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2851},
    eprint = {http://oup.prod.sis.lan/mnras/article-pdf/490/4/5503/30774300/stz2851.pdf},
}