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