This is a fast supernova neutrino simulation designed for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The original version was written in C++ by Thomas Kowarik and Gösta Kroll at Universität Mainz in 2011, and has been updated by Lutz Köpke. This project began as a Python port of the original program, the Unified Supernova Simulation Routine (USSR).
The code uses estimates of the supernova neutrino luminosity from large-scale simulations of core-collapse supernovae to calculate photons in the IceCube detector.
ASTERIA can be cloned from this GitHub repository in the usual way. It also pulls in a private submodule containing core-collapse supernova flux calculations. To pull the submodule after cloning the repository, run
git submodule update --init --recursive
This only needs to be done the first time you clone ASTERIA. To update the submodule in your working copy, run the command
git submodule update --recursive --remote
ASTERIA can be installed by cloning the repository and running
python setup.py install
Alternatively, for rapid development the command
python setup.py develop
export ASTERIA=/path/to/asteria_folder
will install softlinks in your python path to the source in your git checkout.
ASTERIA is configured in such a way that the following directories will be automatically generated if they are missing, but their content will be ignored by git.
/path/to/asteria_folder/scratch
/path/to/asteria_folder/data/
/scratch is intended to be user work space.
/data/processed contains processed simulation files, which are potentially large.
ASTERIA is free software licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.