21cmSense¶
A python package for calculating the expected sensitivities of 21cm experiments to the Epoch of Reionization power spectrum. For details of the observing strategy assumed by this code, and other relevant scientific information, please see
Pober et al. 2013AJ….145…65P
and
Pober et al. 2014ApJ…782…66P.
Installation¶
Clone/download the package and run pip install [-e] . in the top-level.
If you are a conda user (which we recommend), you may want to install the following
using conda rather than them being automatically installed with pip:
$ conda install numpy scipy pyyaml astropy
Usage¶
There are two ways to use this code: as a python library or via the CLI. The simplest possible usage is by using the CLI as follows:
$ sense calc-sense <SENSITIVITY_CONFIG_FILE.yml>
Other options to the calc-sense program can be read by using:
$ sense calc-sense --help
An example config file is in this repository under example_configs/sensitivity_hera.yml,
which details the various parameters that can be set. In all, three configuration files
are required – one defining an observatory, another defining an observation, and the
sensitivity one already mentioned.
The CLI can also be used in a two-step process, by running:
$ sense grid-baselines <OBSERVATION_CONFIG_FILE.yml>
and then:
$ sense calc-sense <SENSITIVITY_CONFIG_FILE.yml> --array-file=<ARRAY_FILE.pkl>
where the ARRAY_FILE is produced in the first step (and its location is printed during
the execution).
Acknowledgment¶
If you use this code in any of your work, please acknowledge
Pober et al. 2013AJ….145…65P
and
Pober et al. 2014ApJ…782…66P
and provide a link to this repository.