TARDIS is a tool that creates synthetic observations (spectra) for exploding stars (supernovae).
We provide TARDIS as a free, open-source tool. If you are using it, please adhere to a few policies and acknowledge the TARDIS Team.
If you use this code for any publications or presentations please acknowledge it. Please cite Kerzendorf & Sim 2014 in the text and add the following paragraph to the Acknowledgement section:
@ARTICLE{2014MNRAS.440..387K, author = {{Kerzendorf}, W.~E. and {Sim}, S.~A.}, title = "{A spectral synthesis code for rapid modelling of supernovae}", journal = {\mnras}, archivePrefix = "arXiv", eprint = {1401.5469}, primaryClass = "astro-ph.SR", keywords = {radiative transfer, methods: numerical, supernovae: general}, year = 2014, month = may, volume = 440, pages = {387-404}, doi = {10.1093/mnras/stu055}, adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.440..387K}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
@ARTICLE{2019A&A...621A..29V, author = {{Vogl}, C. and {Sim}, S.~A. and {Noebauer}, U.~M. and {Kerzendorf}, W.~E. and {Hillebrandt}, W.}, title = "{Spectral modeling of type II supernovae. I. Dilution factors}", journal = {\aap}, keywords = {radiative transfer, methods: numerical, stars: distances, supernovae: general, supernovae: individual: SN1999em, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics}, year = "2019", month = "Jan", volume = {621}, eid = {A29}, pages = {A29}, doi = {10.1051/0004-6361/201833701}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, eprint = {1811.02543}, primaryClass = {astro-ph.HE}, adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A&A...621A..29V}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
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This project is Copyright (c) TARDIS Collaboration and licensed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license. This package is based upon the Astropy package template which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the licenses folder for more information.