Software and databases

CRAL staff are actively involved in the development of software for numerical simulation, modeling, data processing, and data reduction. This involvement ranges from contributing to existing open-source software (adding features, optimizations) to the complete development of new software. Many of these software tools are publicly available.

Several of them are available for download on the CRAL GitLab server.

Numerical simulation and modeling software

A-MaZe

Contact: Rolf Walder

Description: Code package for computing 3D magnetic flows, 3D NLTE radiative transfer, and synthetic spectra

Language: Fortran

LENSTOOL

Contact: Johan Richard

Description: Gravitational lensing software for modeling the mass distribution of galaxies and clusters

Language: C

PHANTOM

Contact: Guillaume Laibe

Description: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

Language: Fortran

RAMSES

Contact: Benoit Commerçon & Joki Rosdahl

Description: Adaptive Mesh Refinement hydrodynamic code for self-gravitating astrophysical flows

Language: Fortran

 

RASCAS

Contact: Leo Michel-Dansac & Jeremy Blaizot

Description: Massively parallel Monte Carlo code for resonant line transfer in AMR simulations

Language: Fortran

 

Data processing software

GalPak3D

Contact: Nicolas Bouché

Description: A modeling tool for extracting galaxy parameters and kinematics from any 3-dimensional data

Language: Python

 

LitPro

Contact: Isabelle Tallon-Bosc

Description: JMMC model fitting software

Language: Yorick + Java

MPDAF

Contact: Roland Bacon & Laure Piqueras

Description: MUSE Python Data Analysis Framework

Language: Python

OImaging

Contact: Ferréol Soulez

Description: A common GUI to run optical interferometry image reconstruction software

Language: Java

 

ORIGIN

Contact: Roland Bacon

Description: A software tool for blind detection of faint emitters in MUSE datacubes

Language: Python

ULySS

Contact: Philippe Prugniel

Description: A package for analyzing astronomical spectroscopic data

Language: GDL/IDL

 

Database

CRAL staff also contribute to the creation and maintenance of scientific databases made available to the research community.

Contact: Philippe Prugniel
Description: Extragalactic database