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3.2
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Synthetic Observation
Synthetic Observation
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Methods for generating various types of synthetic observations from simulation data.
Light Cone Generator
Configuring the Light Cone Generator
Creating Light Cone Solutions
Making a Light Cone Projection
Light Ray Generator
Configuring the Light Ray Generator
Making Light Ray Data
What Can I do with this?
Planning Simulations to use LightCones or LightRays
Absorption Spectrum
Creating an Absorption Spectrum
Adding Features to the Spectrum
Making the Spectrum
Fitting an Absorption Spectrum
Loading an Absorption Spectrum
Specifying Species Properties
Generating Fit of Spectrum
Saving a Spectrum Fit
Procedure for Generating Fits
Finding Line Complexes
Fitting a Line Complex
Checking Fit Results
Saturated Lyman Alpha Fitting Tools
Star Particle Analysis
Star Formation Rate
Synthetic Spectrum Generator
X-ray Emission Fields
Adding Emission Fields
Mock Observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Constructing Mock X-ray Observations
Creating an X-ray observation of a dataset on disk
Creating a X-ray observation from an in-memory dataset
Storing events for future use and for reading-in by telescope simulators
Creating Position-Position-Velocity FITS Cubes