Software Tools
Since 2011, CAASTRO members have created a range of innovative software tools that have helped achieve significant research outcomes, and many with broad applications beyond CAASTRO’s areas of research.
Marz
A client-side web-application for visualising and redshifting spectra.
Owner: Samuel Hinton
Email: Samuel
HMFcalc
A web-application for calculating halo mass functions, using hmf as the backend.
Owner: Steven Murray
Email: Steven
Powerbox
A python library for producing arbitrary-dimensional boxes with arbitrary isotropic power spectra, supporting both Gaussian and LogNormal fields.
Owner: Steven Murray
Email: Steven
Chain Consumer
A python library for consumer output chains of MCMC processes to estimate posterior surfaces and parameter summaries.
Owner: Samuel Hinton
Email: Samuel
Halomod
A modular python library for calculating halo model quantities (with HOD), such as power spectra and correlation functions.
Owner: Steven Murray
Email: Steven
HALOGEN
An application for producing large synthetic halo catalogues very efficiently.
Owner: Santiago Avila, Steven Murray & Chris Power
Email: Steven
Hmf
A pure-python halo mass function calculator, using the Press-Schechter formalism.
Owner: Steven Murray
Email: Steven
Hankel
A python library for performing Hankel transforms and integrals, common in astronomy applications.
Owner: Steven Murray
Email: Steven
ProFit
A Bayesian galaxy modelling tool with a fast C++ image generation library and a flexible R interface for fitting broadband images.
Owner: Dan Taranu
Email: Dan