Welcome to RUBIX’s documentation!

Welcome to RUBIX’s documentation!#

RUBIX is a tested and modular Open Source tool developed in JAX, designed to forward model IFU cubes of galaxies from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The code automatically parallelizes computations across multiple GPUs, demonstrating performance improvements over state-of-the-art codes. For further details see the publications or the documentation of the individual functions.

Currently the following functionalities are provided:

  • Generate mock IFU flux cubes for stars from IllustrisTNG and NIHAO

  • Generate mock photometric images for stars for different filter curves

  • Use different stellar population synthesis models (FSPS, Bruzual & Charlot, MaStar)

  • Use MUSE as telescope instrument (and some other instruments)

  • Simple dust attenuation model

  • Computation on CPUs or GPUs

  • Calculate the gradient with respect to the physical properties of the input particles through the whole pipeline

Currently the code is under development and is not yet all functionality is available. We are working on adding more features and improving the code, espectially we work on the following features:

  • Adding support for more simulations

  • Adding support for more telescopes

  • Adding gas emission lines and gas continuum

  • Support for sampling from distribution functions as input

If you are interested in contributing to the code or have ideas for further features, please contact us via a github issue or via email. If you use the code in your research, please cite the following paper: Publications

RUBIX documentation:

Notebooks#

Notebooks:

Code base documentation#

Code documentation:

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