SynthPop: a flexible population synthesis Galactic modelling tool

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Published June 4, 2025 | Version v1.0.4
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SynthPop: A New Framework for Synthetic Milky Way Population Generation

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of California, Berkeley
  • 2. ROR icon Louisiana State University
  • 3. EDMO icon Ohio State University
  • 4. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • 5. ROR icon Pennsylvania State University

Description

SynthPop is an open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. It is Python-based and configured via json files.

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Is described by
Preprint: arXiv:2411.18821 (arXiv)

Dates

Updated
2025-06-04

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/synthpop-galaxy/synthpop
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active