Software/Research Products

SARA-spec (python): 

A package for the reduction of spectroscopic data obtained with the spectrographs of the SARA Observatory

GitHub repository and documentation (still work in progress)

Video tutorials for reduction and for detailed observing procedure (still work in progress)

Rich Towsend's suite of magnetic field and magnetospheric codes (fortran 2003 and python)

3D field extrapolation, ADM/RRM magnetospheric structure, and radiative transfer tools.

With documentation, tutorials, python post-processing tools, and X-ray expansion by V. Petit and C. Russell

GitHub repository and documentation (still work in progress)

Field extrapolation in 2D (python)

Pedagogical description of force-free field extrapolation (with source radius) and field line tracing. Includes lecture notes. 

GitHub repository and documentation (still work in progress)

Bayesian evaluation of magnetic field upper limit from spectropolarimetry (IDL and python)

Set of codes from Petit & Wade 2011 that were used in Petit+2019 for the upper limits for the MiMeS sample of O-type stars

GitHub repository and documentation (still work in progress)

NICER data processing and analysis

Some tools to batch process NICER data (with nicerl2 and xselect), and analyze the background contamination.

GitHub repository and documentation (still work in progress)

Tutorials on the operation of the SARA KP spectrograph

SARA KP spectrograph operation 

Technical aspect of using the reduction python 

• Set up a gitHub repository with Sphinx documentation (API from docstring and jupyter notebook tutorials) hosted on gitHub pages: https://github.com/veropetit/gradTutorial

Work in progress...