is a project launched by the Max Planck Insitute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (MPIK), an open-source C++/python package which handles the spectral modelling of non-thermally emitting astrophysical sources in a simple and modular way. It allows the user to devise time-dependent models of leptonic and hadronic particle populations in a general astrophysical context (including SNRs, PWNs and AGNs) and to compute their subsequent photon emission.
For more info and a turorial, see the GAMERA docu! (currently being updated)
GAMERA is written in C++ and can be wrapped to python.
The software is listed in the Astrophysics Source Code Library
You need to have GSL installed on your system, as well as SWIG if you want to wrap the python module. If you are a Mac user, it might be required to install pkg-config.
Running
- $ make all
will generate a shared object (lib/libgamera.so) as well as the python module (lib/_gamerapy.so , lib/gamerapy.py).
The GAMERA library and the GAMERA programs are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 can be found here.