msabuschmann / stellarwakes

Python package for dark matter subhalo searches using stellar kinematic data

stellarContrails

This code uses stellar kinematic data to search for dark matter (DM) subhalos through their gravitational perturbations to the stellar phase-space distribution.

Authors

• Malte Buschmann; buschman at umich.edu
• Joachim Kopp; jkopp at uni-mainz dot de
• Benjamin R. Safdi; bsafdi at umich dot edu
• Chih-Liang Wu; cliang at mit.edu

If you make use of stellarContrails in a publication, please cite 1710.xxxxx.

Compiling and Running

This code package is written in python and cython. The easiest way to install stellarContrails, along with it's dependent Python packages, is to use the setup script

python setup.py install

which also builds the cython modules. To just compile the cython modules locally:

make build

Examples

An example of how to use stellarContrails is provided in the examples/ folder in the form of a jupyter notebook. That notebook uses example stellar kinematic data, with and without a subhalo, provided in the examples/data/ folder.