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The KinMS (KINematic Molecular Simulation) package can be used to simulate observations of arbitary molecular/atomic cold gas distributions.

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The KinMS (KINematic Molecular Simulation) package can be used to simulate observations of arbitary molecular/atomic cold gas distributions. The routines are written with flexibility in mind, and have been used in various different applications, including investigating the kinematics of molecular gas in early-type galaxies (e.g. Davis et al, MNRAS, Volume 429, Issue 1, p.534-555, 2013), and determining supermassive black-hole masses from CO interfermetric observations (e.g. Davis et al., Nature, 2013). They are also useful for creating input datacubes for further simulation in e.g. CASA’s sim_observe tool.

If you find any bugs, or wish to be kept up to date when new versions of this software are released, please email me at DavisT -at- cardiff.ac.uk

### Install You can install KinMS with pip install kinms

It requires the following modules:

  • numpy

  • matplotlib

  • scipy

  • astropy

### Documentation

To run the test suite, which demonstrates some of the functionality of this code, please install the software. Then: ` ipython from kinms.examples.KinMS_testsuite import * run_tests() ` examples/KinMS_testsuite.py contains the example code, which can be modified and updated for most use cases.

To get you started fitting galaxies with KinMS, see the walk through here: https://github.com/TimothyADavis/KinMSpy/blob/master/kinms/documentation/KinMSpy_tutorial.ipynb

Author & License

Copyright 2019 Timothy A. Davis

Built by Timothy A. Davis <https://github.com/TimothyADavis>. Licensed under the MIT License (see LICENSE).

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