Software

Here I share some of the tools that I created during my research. Most of it is written in Mathematica by Wolfram Research.

WCSTools

a Mathematica package to display astronomical FITS images together with WCS coordinate grids.

Escape Probability

extends the capabilities of Mathematica to solve the radiative transfer problem (in the astronomical context) using the escape probability approximation.

HDF4Import

a small Mathematica package to access Vdata sets in HDF4 data files.

UMIST

a Mathematica package to process the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry (UDfA) contents and create isotopic variants of the reaction equations and the corresponding rates.

SpectrumPlot

a large Mathematica package to access astronomical (spectroscopic) data from FITS files (various non-standard FITS variants are supported) and to further process the spectroscopic data.

LTE

Local Thermal Equilibrium radiative transfer in Mathematica

WL-PDR

A simple Mathematica PDR model code.

PDRs are Photon Dominated Regions in the interstellar medium. A PDR model computes the chemical and thermodynamical balance in these regions and their emission signature. WL-PDR is a port of the simple toy PDR model PyPDR written by Simon Bruderer . This is not meant to be a model for real world applications but to test certain numerical or physical aspects of PDR modelling in a very simple model setup.