Software

Numerical simulators are fundamental tools for the design and optimisation of missions and instruments.

I am and I've been involved in the development of different simulators, some of them are now publicly available.

Generic instrument simulators

The Generic instrument independent point source simulator. It's been used to build the radiometric models in the following missions: ARIEL, EXCITE, Twinkle, Mauve.

ExoSim 2

Refactored version of the end-to-end time domain simulator for the exoplanet transit observations.

PAOS

PAOS, the Physical Optics Simulator, is a fast, modern, and reliable Python package for Physical Optics studies.

Mission dedicated tools

ArielRad

Radiometric model simulator for the ARIEL space mission.

Alfnoor

Wrapper of ArielRad and TauREx to produce ARIEL simulated data-set of entire planetary populations.

Other tools

Rosseland and Planck opacity converter. It produces the two mean opacities from data.

Taurex-Emcee

A plugin for TauREx 3.1 that provides the Emcee sampler by Dan Foreman-Mackey & contributors for the retrieval.

AstrOmakase

Introducing AstrOmakase – an optimized Ubuntu setup designed specifically for astronomers and astrophysicists. Building on the Omakub project, AstrOmakase provides a comprehensive environment with essential tools for astronomical research. This tailored setup includes Anaconda, SAOImage DS9, Stellarium, Zotero, and more, ensuring that you can focus on your research without the hassle of manual configurations. Join the community to enhance and expand this package. Explore more on our GitHub repository.

Try it:

 wget -qO- https://lorenzomugnai.github.io/AstrOmakase/installer.sh | bash

Note: For a better and more coding-oriented experience, start from a clean Ubuntu 24.04 installation and install Omakub first:

wget -qO- https://omakub.org/install | bash