zodipy 0.8.6

Software for simulating zodiacal emission

ZodiPy is an Astropy affiliated package, which simulates the zodiacal light in intensity that an arbitrary solar system observer is predicted to see given an interplanetary dust model and a scanning strategy, either in the form of timestreams or HEALPix maps.

Help

See the documentation for more information and examples on how to use ZodiPy for different applications.

Installation

ZodiPy is installed using pip install zodipy.

A simple example

import astropy.units as u
from astropy.time import Time

from zodipy import Zodipy


model = Zodipy("dirbe")

emission = model.get_emission_ang(
    25 * u.micron,
    theta=[10, 10.1, 10.2] * u.deg,
    phi=[90, 89, 88] * u.deg,
    obs_time=Time("2022-01-01 12:00:00"),
    obs="earth",
)

print(emission)
#> [15.35392831 15.35495051 15.35616009] MJy / sr

Scientific paper and citation

For an overview of the ZodiPy model approach and other information regarding zodiacal emission and interplanetary dust modeling we refer to the scientific paper on ZodiPy:

• Cosmoglobe: Simulating zodiacal emission with ZodiPy (San et al. 2022).

See CITATION if you have used ZodiPy in your work and want to cite the software.

Funding

This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 776282 (COMPET-4; BeyondPlanck), 772253 (ERC; bits2cosmology) and 819478 (ERC; Cosmoglobe).