ChiantiPy 0.4.1

ChiantiPy is the Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysical spectroscopy<br /><br />What is CHIANTI<br /><br />The CHIANTI provides a database of atomic data that can be used to interpret the emission of spectral lines and continus emitted from high-temperature, optically-thin astrophysical sources. The CHIANTI project provides a suite of routines written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) to access the database and calculate various quantities for use in interpreting observed spectra or producing synthetic spectra.<br /><br />Getting started with ChiantiPy<br /><br />Prerequisites<br /><br /> * Python ( latext 2.X version; not compatible with version 3.X )<br /> * Numpy<br /> * Scipy<br /> * Matplotlib<br /> * [Optional] PyQt4 or wxPython<br /> * CHIANTI, the atomic database for astrophysical spectroscopy<br /><br />In addition, the FortranFormat module from Scientific Python, developed by Konrad Hinsen of the Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/ScientificPython/), is included in this distribution for simplicity.<br /><br />Installing the CHIANTI database<br /><br />The gzipped data tar ball can be downloaded from the CHIANTI website<br /><br /> * put the file in a convenient directory, cd to the directory and untar the file<br /> * ChiantiPy uses the environment variable XUVTOP to find the database. Set XUVTOP to the name of the directory where the CHIANTI data tarball was placed. For example<br /><br />> setenv XUVTOP /data1/xuv/directory.where.the.tarball.was.placed<br /><br />Some sites have the CHIANTI database maintained as part of a SolarSoft distribution. In that case, simply set XUVTOP to the directory were it exists, usually something like $SSW/packages/chianti/dbase<br /><br />Installing the ChiantiPy package<br /><br />The ChiantiPy package can be downloaded from the ChiantiPy, untar it, cd to the directory where it was unpacked, and then, as root<br /><br />> python setup.py install<br /><br />If you do not have root privileges, simply put the ChiantiPy directory (simply called 'chianti') in your PYTHONPATH<br /><br />Running ChiantiPy<br /><br />The documentation can be found on its web page ChiantiPy<br /><br />In particular, a quick start guide is included which should get you up and running fairly quickly.<br /><br />eeping track of ChiantiPy<br /><br />There is a mailing list that you can subscribe to at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chiantipy-users. In order to subscribe it is first necessary to obtain a user account from sourceforge.net. This is a straightforward process.

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