popsynth: Observed surveys from latent population models
Abstract
Popsynth provides an abstract way to generate survey populations from arbitrary luminosity functions and redshift distributions. Additionally, auxiliary quantities can be sampled and stored. Populations can be saved and restored via an HDF5 files for later use, and population synthesis routines can be created via classes or structured YAML files. Users can construct their own classes for spatial, luminosity, and other distributions, all of which can be connected to arbitrarily complex selection functions.
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- February 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022ascl.soft02021B
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- Software