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# This CITATION.cff file was generated with cffinit.
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cff-version: 1.2.0
title: 'SimSpin: Kinematic analysis of simulated galaxies'
message: >-
If you use this software, please cite it using the
metadata from this file.
type: software
authors:
- given-names: Katherine
family-names: Harborne
email: katherine.harborne@uwa.edu.au
affiliation: The University of Western Australia
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2043-7985'
identifiers:
- type: other
value: 'ascl:1903.006'
description: Astrophysics Source Code Library
- type: doi
value: 10.1017/pasa.2020.8
description: >-
Publications of the Astronomical Society of
Australia, Volume 37, article id. e016, May
2020
repository-code: >-
https://github.com/kateharborne/SimSpin/releases/tag/v1.1.3
repository: 'https://github.com/kateharborne/SimSpin'
abstract: >-
We present SimSpin, a new, public, software
framework for generating integral field
spectroscopy (IFS) data cubes from
N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies,
which can be compared directly with observational
datasets. SimSpin provides a consistent method for
studying a galaxy's stellar component. It can be
used to explore how observationally inferred
measurements of kinematics, such as the spin
parameter lambda_R, are impacted by the effects of,
for example, inclination, seeing conditions,
distance, etc. SimSpin is written in R and has been
designed to be highly modular, flexible, and
extensible. It is already being used by the
astrophysics community to generate IFS-like cubes
and FITS files for direct comparison of simulations
to observations. In this paper, we explain the
conceptual framework of SimSpin; how it is
implemented in R; and we demonstrate SimSpin's
current capabilities, providing as an example a
brief investigation of how numerical resolution
affects how reliably we can recover the intrinsic
stellar kinematics of a simulated galaxy.
keywords:
- 'virtual observatory tools '
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: kinematics and dynamics'
- 'methods: numerical'
license: LGPL-3.0
commit: >-
https://github.com/kateharborne/SimSpin/commit/b238197801be11a20746fbfc7ff0c687a5f028f8
version: v1.1.3
date-released: '2020-12-14'