The modspectra package provides an easy way to create synthetic 3D data cubes
of HI and H-Alpha spectra in the Galaxy. This package uses the spectral-cube
package to handle the data cube and the primary class, EmissionCube, is
built around this. The current main features of modspectra are to complement
the work of Krishnarao, Benjamin, Haffner (2019) on a model of a Tilted
Elliptical Gas Disk around Galactic Center.
It provides the following main features:
-The ability to create synthetic 3D Data cubes of HI emission following the model of Liszt & Burton (1980) -The ability to create synthetic 3D Data cubes of H-Alpha emission following the model of Krishnarao, Benjamin, Haffner (2020), including reddening by dust. -The ability to create synthetic line spectra for any provided coordinate in the sky for HI or H-Alpha emission from the models mentioned above.
This project is Copyright (c) Dhanesh Krishnarao (DK) and licensed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license. This package is based upon the [Astropy package template](https://github.com/astropy/package-template) which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause licence. See the licenses folder for more information.
To install the latest developer version of modspectra you can type:
git clone https://github.com/Deech08/modspectra.git cd modspectra python setup.py install
You may need to add the --user option to the last line if you do not
have root access.
You can also install the latest developer version in a single line with pip:
pip install git+https://github.com/Deech08/modspectra.git
Here is a simple script demonstrating the modspectra package:
>>> from modspectra.cube import EmissionCube
>>> hi_cube = EmissionCube.create_LB80() # Create HI Model Cube
>>> ha_cube = EmissionCube.create_DK20() # Create H-Alpha Model Cube
# Save Data Cubes as fits files
>>> hi_cube.write("LisztBurton1980_HI_Model.fits", model = True)
>>> ha_cube.write("DK2020_HA_Model.fits", model = True)