popcorn-diskpop 0.0.14

Popcorn - tool to analyse Diskpop output

A library to read Diskpop output

popcorn is a Python library to read the output of Diskpop, a Python code used to generate and evolve synthetic populations of protoplanetary discs. Both codes have been published in Somigliana et al. (2024).

Using Diskpop for your work

Diskpop and popcorn are freely available for the community to use. If you use Diskpop simulations in your work, please make sure to cite Somigliana et al. (2024). The code is based on Richard Booth’s repository, and the dust module is entirely forked with no modifications; if you include dust in your simulations, please cite also Booth et al. (2017).

Installation

popcorn can be installed from terminal as

pip install popcorn_diskpop

Alternatively, it is also possible to clone the Bitbucket repository.

Diskpop Team

Diskpop and popcorn have been developed by Alice Somigliana, Giovanni Rosotti, Marco Tazzari, Leonardo Testi, Giuseppe Lodato, Claudia Toci, Rossella Anania, and Benoit Tabone. Both codes are under active development.

Diskpop papers

At this link you can find an up-to-date list of papers employing Diskpop (including its pre-release versions).

Documentation

The Diskpop and popcorn documentation is available here.

Acknowledgements

This project was partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - Ref no. 325594231 FOR 2634/2 TE 1024/2-1, by the DFG Cluster of Excellence Origins (www.origins-cluster.de). This projec has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) via the ERC Synergy Grant ECOGAL (grant 855130).