RaJePy

Overview

Radio Jets in Python (RaJePy) is a Python package which conducts radiative transfer calculations towards a power-law-based, physical model of an ionised jet. Data products from those calculations are subsequently used as the models to conduct synthetic, interferometric radio imaging from.

Purpose

• Inform radio astronomers on the significance of the detrimental effects of the interferometric imaging of ionised jets
• Allow observers to determine the best telescope configurations and observing frequencies for their science target
• Determine the spectral and morphological evolution of jets with variable ejection events/mass loss rates

Requirements:

Python standard library packages:

• collections.abc
• errno
• os
• pickle (developed with 4.0)
• shutil
• sys
• time
• warnings

Other Python packages:

• astropy (developed with 4.0)
• imageio (developed with 2.8.0)
• matplotlib (developed with 3.2.1)
• mpmath (developed with 1.1.0)
• numpy (developed with 1.18.1)
• pandas (developed with 1.0.5)
• scipy (developed with 1.3.1)

System-based installations

• Working casa installation (developed with 5.6.2-2) with casa's executable located in $PATH

Future work and direction

• Incorporate inclination into jet model
• Incorporate position angle into jet model
• Parallelise code, especially different synthetic observations and model calculations