astro-tulips 1.0.1

Creates diagrams of stellar structures and their evolution

tulips creates diagrams of the structure and evolution of stars. It creates plots and movies based on output from the MESA stellar evolution code. tulips represents stars as circles of varying size and color. tulips' capabilities include visualizing the size and perceived color of stars, their interior mixing and nuclear burning processes, their chemical composition, and comparing different MESA models.

Installation

General

To install tulips run

pip install astro-tulips

For more information, please have a look at the dedicated installage page of the tulips documentation.

Note: Python 2 is not supported

Development version

The latest development version is available directly at bitbucket

git clone https://bitbucket.org/elaplace/tulips.git
cd tulips
pip install -e .

Documentation

More details, examples, and tutorials can be found in the tulips documentation

Citing TULIPS

The paper TULIPS: a Tool for Understanding the Lives, Interiors, and Physics of Stars has been accepted for publication in Astronomy & Computing.

If you use TULIPS for your research, please cite this article.

License

This work is distributed under a GNU general public license, version 3.

Contributing

If you wish to submit a new feature or bug fix please don't hesitate to send a pull request or to submit an issue.

Acknowledgments

tulips makes use of the open-source python modules mesaPlot by R. Farmer, colorpy by M. Kness, CMasher, numpy, astropy,matplotlib, and of ipython/jupyter. Logo design: A. Faber. Documentation: I. de Langen. Created and developed by Eva Laplace.

Funding

This project was funded by the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from the European Research Council (ERC, grant agreement No.715063) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the Vidi research program BinWaves with project number 639.042.728. The ET Outreach award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and its sponsors E. van Dishoek and T. de Zeeuw are gratefully acknowledged for making it possible to fund the work of I. de Langen on the TULIPS documentation and tutorials.