Quickstart

The aim of scope is to simulate observations of exoplanet atmospheres with ground-based, high-resolution spectroscopy. Simulating the atmosphere itself — performing the radiative transfer calculations to generate a spectrum that depends on atmospheric properties — is out of scope for scope.

Once the package is installed and data are downloaded, the simulation is as simple as running, from the command line:

python run_simulation.py

scope can also be run within a Python interpreter. The following code snippet demonstrates how to run a simulation (note that these are not real filepaths!):

from scope import run_simulation

simulate_observation(
planet_spectrum_path="./planet_spectrum.pkl",
star_spectrum_path="./stellar_spectrum.pkl",
data_cube_path="./data_cube.pkl",