MARTINI: Mock Array Radio Telescope Interferometry ofthe Neutral ISM

Oman, Kyle A.

Abstract

MARTINI is a modular Python package that takes smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of galaxies as input and creates synthetic spatially- and/or spectrally-resolved observations of the 21-cm radio emission line of atomic hydrogen (data cubes). The various aspects of the mock-observing process are divided logically into sub-modules handling the data cube, source galaxy, telescope beam pattern, noise, spectral model and SPH kernel. MARTINI is object-oriented: each sub-module provides a class (or classes) which can be configured as desired. For most sub-modules, base classes are provided to allow for straightforward customization. Instances of each sub-module class are given as parameters to an instance of a main "Martini" class; a mock observation is then constructed by calling a handful of functions to execute the desired steps in the mock-observing process.

Citation

Oman, K. A. (2024). MARTINI: Mock Array Radio Telescope Interferometry ofthe Neutral ISM. The Journal of Open Source Software, 9(98), Article 6860. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06860

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 8, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jun 8, 2024
• Publication Date: Jun 8, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 24, 2024
• Journal: Journal of Open Source Software
• Print ISSN: 2475-9066
• Electronic ISSN: 2475-9066
• Publisher: Open Journals
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 98
• Article Number: 6860
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06860
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2980228