A CASA Python module to generate synthetic spectralradio-astronomical image cubes.
Originally created for a study of interferometric imaging with CASA by L. Cortese, R. Galvan-Madrid, P. Klaassen, S. Longmore, and D. Petry in 2012.
Updated for use with CASA 6 by D. Petry in 2021.
The module gensynthcube enables you to combine various geometric spatial shapes (thick or thin disks or rings with an optional tilt, Gaussians, spheres) with different spectral shapes (continuum, powerlaw, line) and place them into a synthetic image cube as it is needed to created simulated ALMA datasets.
The design of the cube properties is done by filling in a number of Python dictionaries as demonstrated in the script gensynthcube-test.py .
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