SPISEA: Stellar Population Interface for Stellar Evolution and Atmospheres

SPISEA is an open-source python package that generates single-age, single-metallicity populations (i.e. star clusters). It gives the user control over many parameters:

• Cluster characteristics (age, metallicity, mass, distance)

• Total extinction, differential extinction, and extinction law

• Stellar evolution and atmosphere models

• Stellar multiplicity and Initial Mass Function

• Initial-Final Mass Relation

• Photometric filters

Here is a brief list of things that SPISEA can do:

• make a cluster isochrone in many filters using different stellar models

• make a star cluster at any age with an unusual IMF and unresolved multiplicity

• make a spectrum of a star cluster in integrated light

SPISEA can be downloaded from Github. Please cite Hosek et al. (2020) if you use SPISEA in your research.

Getting Started

• Install From Git
• Build and deploy from Docker
• Deploy from DockerHub
• Deploy from Singularity containers
• Quick Start Guide
• Further Examples

Documentation

• Isochrone Object
• Cluster Object
• Evolution Model Object
• Atmosphere Model Object
• IMF Object
• Stellar Multiplicity Object
• IFMR Object
• Extinction Law Object
• Photometric Filters

Advanced Documentation

• Adding Evolution Models
• Adding Atmosphere Models
• Adding Photometric Filters

Contributions

Have an idea? We’d love to have you join our team! We welcome and encourage contributions to SPISEA.

For feature additions, we ask that users make their own fork of the repository, make their changes, and then submit a pull request to the “dev” branch.

All contributions will be acknowledged on the Contributors page (with permission). Contributors with features used in code releases will be co-authors in future SPISEA software papers.

Change Log

2.1.11 (2023-09-15)

• Small bugfix to RedLawFritz11 so paths work regardless of operating system used

2.1.10 (2023-06-01)

• Added support for Roman Space Telescope filters (via pysynphot)

  • Note: this requires the pysynphot cdbs/mtab and cdbs/comp/ directories to be at least the 2021-07-16 version or later. See Install From Git for how to download these files

2.1.9 (2023-01-10)

• Small bugfix: updating pytest setup.cfg and conftest.py files to work with latest python/astropy versions

• Added additional print statements in verbose condition flags

2.1.8 (2023-01-09)

• Small bugfix: Updating numpy array definitions to use dtype=’objects’ instead of depreciated dtype=’np.object’

2.1.7 (2022-10-26)

• Made several updates to the extinction law objects, including:

  • Added Indebetouw05, Schoedel10, Fritz11, and NoguerasLara20 laws

  • Improved docs and added plotting functions for Nishiyama09 and RomanZuniga07 laws

  • Updated K-band scale wavelength for Fitzpatrick07 and NoguerasLara18 to match published values

  • Updated assorted “under the hood” functions to handle new laws

  • Added more test functions for the extinction laws

  • Updated Extinction Law Object page so laws are in chronological order

2.1.6 (2022-09-15)

• Bugfix in how evolution object identifies what age and metallicity model to pull from the grid of available models. Previously, it used first grid model where grid model value > requested value (numpy.searchsorted routine). Now, is takes grid model where the difference between the grid model value and requested value is minimized. This is most relevant for metallicity selection for MIST isochrones, where the model grid metallicities are spaced out.

2.1.5 (2022-07-20)

• Added additional parameters to get_bb_atmosphere function to give user control over the min and max wavelength values, as well as wavelength sampling. See Atmosphere Model Object for details.

2.1.4 (2022-05-24)

• Expanded MISTv1 evolution model grid age range to logAge = 5.01 – 10.30

• Begun version tracking for evolution model grid; updated grid (with new MISTv1 age range) is grid 1.1

• A new ModelMismatch exception will be raised if evolution model object requires a higher version of the model grid than the user has installed. See Evolution Model Object for details

• Fixed MISTv1 sub-directory names so proper Z_solar value of 0.0142 is used (only naming convention, does not effect output results)

• Updated evolution model and atmosphere model doc pages with tables describing properties of installed options

• Small tweaks to installation instructions for clarity

• Updated test functions and removed outdated dependence on nose package

2.1.3 (2022-04-23)

• Updates to documentation and Quick-Start Guide

• Fully depreciated Hosek18 extinction law to avoid confusion with Hosek18b

2.1.2 (2022-04-01)

• New installation methods using Docker containers and Singularity

2.1.1 (2022-03-30)

• Bugfix: fixed application of IFMR to objects in companions table (ResolvedCluster and associated subclasses: applies when multiplicity + IFMR are used)

• Minor additions to docs

2.1.0 (2022-01-24)

• Added ability to create resolved multiple systems, with orbital elements assigned to each companion (see Stellar Multiplicity Object)

• Added new metallicity-dependent IFMR models (see IFMR Object)

• Added blackbody atmosphere class

• Additional test functions, filter functions, and documentation updates

2.0.0 (2020-07-09)

• Top-level software name change from PyPopStar to SPISEA (see Switching from version 1 (PyPopStar) to version 2 (SPISEA) for instructions to do this). This version of code was released in Hosek et al. (2020).

1.0.1 (2020-06-24)

• Bug fix for photometric column headers for some filters, added new tests regarding total cluster mass, small documentation edits

1.0.0 (2019-12-01)

• Initial release

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