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ChromaStarPy

swMATH ID: 27035
Software Authors: C. Ian Short, Jason H.T. Bayer, Lindsey M. Burns
Description: ChromaStarPy: A stellar atmosphere and spectrum modeling and visualization lab in python. We announce ChromaStarPy, an integrated general stellar atmospheric modeling and spectrum synthesis code written entirely in python V. 3. ChromaStarPy is a direct port of the ChromaStarServer (CSServ) Java modeling code described in earlier papers in this series, and many of the associated JavaScript (JS) post-processing procedures have been ported and incorporated into CSPy so that students have access to ready-made ”data products”. A python integrated development environment (IDE) allows a student in a more advanced course to experiment with the code and to graphically visualize intermediate and final results, ad hoc, as they are running it. CSPy allows students and researchers to compare modeled to observed spectra in the same IDE in which they are processing observational data, while having complete control over the stellar parameters affecting the synthetic spectra. We also take the opportunity to describe improvements that have been made to the related codes, ChromaStar (CS), CSServ and ChromaStarDB (CSDB) that, where relevant, have also been incorporated into CSPy. The application may be found at the home page of the OpenStars project: http://www.ap.smu.ca/ ishort/OpenStars/
Homepage: http://www.ap.smu.ca/~ishort/OpenStars/
Source Code:  https://github.com/sevenian3/ChromaStarPy
Dependencies: Python
Keywords: arXiv_astro-ph.IM; Astrophysics; arXiv_astro-ph.SR; Python; OpenStars project
Related Software: GrayStar; Jupyter; iSpec; PyRAF; Python
Cited in: 0 Publications

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ChromaStarPy: A stellar atmosphere and spectrum modeling and visualization lab in python
C. Ian Short, Jason H.T. Bayer, Lindsey M. Burns
2018