readme.md

Why this project ?

This Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer in Astrophysics project was a collaborative project made for the Computer Programming class of the second semester of Strasbourg's Master of Fundamental Physics (M1S2).

The collaboration was done in-between Davy Borowski, Quentin Fenoy, Yulia Fok, Pierre Galois, Guillaume Harmant and I (Pierre Guichard).

Installation

Open the terminal and go to the main folder. First you need to setup a virtuel environment, to do so, make sure you already have the virtuelenv module,

pip install virtualenv

Once installation is complete, the virtual environment can be created by typing virtuelenv -p /usr/bin/python3 env. This command line will create, in the current directory, an environment named env, and store it in a folder of the same name. The environment env can be loaded via source env/bin/activate. At this point, the name of your environment should have appeared in your prompt as a prefix. Now, we just need to install the needed modules on our new environement env. The following command will install the packages according to the configuration file

pip install -r requirements.txt

After all of that, we are good to go.

Usage

In order to run the code, you can simply run this command where the file is located

python3 main.py

After doing so, you are asked to enter either a processus or a check to execute, the implemented ones are the following,

• Processus
  • Radio
  • Exoplanet detection
  • Obstacle
• Checks
  • 3D plot
  • Planck sampling

Note that some of the codes are long to run because of the high number of photons needed to ensure some viewable results.

These are the images generated by the checks (3D plot on the top, Planck sampling on the bottom),

And thoses generated by the process (Obstacle on the top, Radio on the bottom),

License

CC BY-SA