Python Galactic Model

[jenniferyee]

In-Gu reminded me today that Matthew Penny has galactic model code already written in Python:

GULLS: https://github.com/gulls-microlensing/gulls-microlensing.github.io?tab=readme-ov-file
SynthPop: A public, modular, python Galactic population synthesis code

[rpoleski]

List of public codes:

• GULLS https://github.com/gulls-microlensing/gulls (not in python)
• SynthPop: https://github.com/synthpop-galaxy/synthpop
• PopSyCLE https://github.com/jluastro/PopSyCLE
• genulens https://github.com/nkoshimoto/genulens

[jdeast]

The galacticmodel component implements a mixture model of the bulge and disk, enforcing kinematics and density of the galaxy as defined in https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...917...78K/abstract. It's a major refactor of https://github.com/nkoshimoto/genulens to distill its core functionality.

Do we want to keep this issue open to implement other galactic models, or are we happy with just the one?

[rpoleski]

Our model is a simplified version of Koshimoto+21. I'm guessing in the future we would like to have other galactic models as well, so it would be nice to easily add other models.

This issue can be closed.

[jdeast]

Ok, if we still want to refine it, let's keep it open since this issue has links to other galactic models.