Welcome!

This is the documentation of life_td_data_generation, a Python package that generates the data for the LIFE Target Database. The database contains information useful for the planned LIFE mission (mid-ir, nulling interferometer in space). It characterizes possible target systems including information about stellar, planetary and disk properties. The data itself is mainly a collection from different other databases and catalogs.

In this documentation, we explain the structure of the code base and provide some guides to help you get started if you want to reproduce our results or use our code for your own experiments.

We have tried our best to follow best practices for software development and document all important steps. However, at the end of the day, it is still research code. Therefore, if you do get stuck with anything, please feel free to reach out to us!

This applies, of course, also if you find any bugs or problems (either in the code or the docs)!

Check out the Tutorials section for further information on how to use the database.

Note

This project is under active development.