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[ascl:1811.011] SIM5: Library for ray-tracing and radiation transport in general relativity

The SIM5 library contains routines for relativistic raytracing and radiation transfer in GR. Written C with a Python interface, it has a special focus on raytracing from accretion disks, tori, hot spots or any other 3D configuration of matter in Kerr geometry, but it can be used with any other metric as well. It handles both optically thick and thin sources as well as transport of polarization of the radiation and calculates the propagation of light rays from the source to an observer through a curved spacetime. It supports parallelization and runs on GPUs.

Code site:
https://github.com/mbursa/sim5
Used in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...858...82Y
Bibcode:
2018ascl.soft11011B
Preferred citation method:

Please see citation information here: https://github.com/mbursa/sim5#Citing


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