VizieR Online Data Catalog: XCLASS-Interface (Moeller+, 2017)

The Common Astronomy Software Applications package (CASA) package provides a powerful tool for data post-processing, but contains only rudimentary functions for modeling the data. On the one hand the toolbox offers the possibility to model data using the myXCLASS program, which is a one-dimensional radiative transfer program using CDMS/JPL molecular data. Additionally, the toolbox provides an interface for the MAGIX package. MAGIX provides a framework of an easy interface between existing codes and an iterating engine that attempts to minimize deviations of the model results from available observational data, constraining the values of the model parameters and providing corresponding error estimates. Many models can be plugged into MAGIX to explore their parameter space and find the set of parameter values that best fits observational/experimental data. Furthermore, the toolbox contains an interface for VAMDC (Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre) and the CDMS (Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy) database.

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