Galaxia_ananke package#

Galaxia#

Provides a set of utilities to run a modified version of the synthetic star survey generator Galaxia (Sharma et al 2011 <http://ascl.net/1101.007>).

How to use#

Galaxia comes with the function make_survey_from_particles, please refer to its documentation for further help.

Galaxia_ananke.make_survey_from_particles(*args, pname=None, kname=None, photo_sys=['padova/GAIA__DR2'], cmd_magnames='G,Gbp-Grp', simname='sim', surveyname='survey', fsample=1, ngb=64, k_factor=1, **kwargs)[source]#

Returns a handler object representing the synthetic star survey generated by Galaxia given the properties of an input set of particles and various survey parameters.

Call signatures:

output = make_survey_from_particles(particles, rho_pos, rho_vel,
 photo_sys=DEFAULT_PSYS, cmd_magnames=DEFAULT_CMD, simname='sim',
 surveyname='survey', fsample=1, ngb=64, **kwargs)

output = make_survey_from_particles(pname=None, kname=None,
 photo_sys=DEFAULT_PSYS, cmd_magnames=DEFAULT_CMD,
 surveyname='survey', fsample=1, **kwargs)
Parameters:

  • particles (dict) – Dictionary where each elements represent the properties of the input particles, given as equal-length array_like objects. Refer to Input documentation for appropriate formatting. Galaxia_ananke also comes packaged with a function make_dummy_particles_input to produce a dummy example for that dictionary.

  • rho_pos (array_like) – Contains the position-determined kernel density estimates for the input particles. Must have equal lengths as the elements in the particles dictionary.

  • rho_vel (array_like) – Contains the velocity-determined kernel density estimates for the input particles. Must have equal lengths as the elements in the particles dictionary.

  • pname (string) – Path to existing pre-formatted particles EBF files to use as input for Galaxia. This keyword argument must be used in conjunction with kname. Default to None if unused.

  • kname (string) – Path to existing pre-formatted kernel EBF files to use as input for Galaxia. This keyword argument must be used in conjunction with pname. Default to None if unused.

  • photo_sys (string or list) – Name(s) of the photometric system(s) Galaxia should use to generate the survey. Default to DEFAULT_PSYS - refer to the package constants. Available photometric systems can be found with the photometry submodule - please refer to its documentation for further details.

  • cmd_magnames (string) – Names of the filters Galaxia should use for the color-magnitude diagram box selection. The given string must meet the following format: f”{band1},{band2}-{band3}” where band1 is the magnitude filter and (band2, band3) are the filters that define the band2-band3 color index. The filter names must correspond to filters that are part of the first chosen photometric system in photo_sys. Default to DEFAULT_CMD - refer to the package constants.

  • simname (string) – Optional name Galaxia should use for the input files. Default to ‘sim’.

  • surveyname (string) – Optional name Galaxia should use for the output files. Default to ‘survey’.

  • fsample (float) – Sampling rate from 0 to 1 for the resulting synthetic star survey. 1 returns a full sample while any value below returns partial surveys. Default to 1.

  • ngb (int) – Number of neighbouring particles Galaxia should consider. Default to 64.

  • k_factor (float) – Scaling factor applied to the kernels lengths to adjust all the kernels sizes uniformly. Lower values reduces the kernels extents, while higher values increases them. Default to 1 (no adjustment).

  • **kwargs – Additional keyword arguments to customize the survey. Refer to constant PARFILE_TEMPLATE for all the possible keyword arguments.

Returns:

output – Handler with utilities to utilize the output survey and its data.

Return type:

Output

Subpackages#

Submodules#