Simulation tools for astronomical surveys (cadence, strategy).
Documentation: https://simsurvey.readthedocs.io/
Paper: Feindt et al. (2019)
Citing simsurvey:
Installation
sudo pip install simsurvey
Requirements:
The required packages will be installed automatically if you install simsurvey using pip
- astropy (pip install astropy)
- sncosmo (pip install sncosmo)
- propobject (pip install propobject)
- sfdmap (pip install sfdmap)
Optional
- matplotlib (pip install matplotlib) for plotting the survey results
- healpy (pip install matplotlib) for using HEALPix-based sky maps Examples
Scripts to rerun the analysis performed in Feindt et al. (submitted) are available at https://github.com/ufeindt/simsurvey-paper-scripts
Further example notebooks can be found at https://github.com/ZwickyTransientFacility/simsurvey-examples