python

Radiative transfer and ionisation code

Python is a Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code designed to simulate the spectrum of biconical (or spherical) winds in disk systems. It was origianally written by Long and Knigge (2002) and was intended for simulating the spectra of winds in cataclysmic variables. Since then, it has also been used to simulate the spectra of systems ranging from young stellar objects to AGN.

The name Python is today unfortunate, and changing the name is an ongoing debate within the development team. The program is written in C and can be compiled on systems runining various flavors of linux, including OSX on Macs.

The code is is available on github Issues regarding the code and suggestions for improvement the code regarding the should be reported there. We actively encourage other to make use of the code for their own science. If anyone has questions about whether the code might be useful for a project, we encourage you to contact one of the authors of the code.

Documentation

Various documentation exists:

• A Quick Guide describing how to install and run Python (in a fairly mechanistic fashion).

For more information on how this page was generated and how to create documentation for python, look at the page for documentation on the documentation.

Authors

The authors of the python code and their institutions are:

Knox Long

Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Eureka Scientific, Inc., 2452 Delmer St., Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA

Christian Knigge

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Stuart Sim

School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK

Nick Higginbottom

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

James Matthews

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK

Sam Mangham

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Edward Parkinson

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Mandy Hewitt

School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK

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