GALAXIA: A CODE TO GENERATE A SYNTHETIC SURVEY OF THE MILKY WAY
We present here a fast code for creating a synthetic survey of the Milky Way. Given one or more color-magnitude bounds, a survey size, and geometry, the code returns a catalog of stars in accordance with a given model of the Milky Way. The model can be specified by a set of density distributions or...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2011
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