Mapping the line-of-sight component of magnetic fields associated with molecular clouds using Faraday rotation measure data as described in Tahani et al. 2018.
Tahani et al. 2018:
A&A 614, A100 (2018); doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201732219
url = 'https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/06/aa32219-17/aa32219-17.html'
The minimum Python version is 3.6.1.
The following packages must be installed:
- The "Classes" folder includes classes to be included as imports.
The code was originially written by Mehrnoosh Tahani
- written at the University of Calgary
- updated at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (National Research Council Canada)
The code was updated in 2021 by Jennifer Glover
- Undergraduate co-op Student (National Research Council Canada)
- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
- University of Victoria
The code was updated in 2022 by John Ming Ngo
- Undergraduate co-op Student (National Research Council Canada)
- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
- University of Calgary
The code uses outputs of a chemical evolution code. Any chemical evolution code that provides abundances vs extinction (or column density) can be used. In this version we used outputs of a chemical evolution code developed by René Plume, at the University of Clagary.