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Realistic Foregrounds Simulation for EoR 21cm Signal Detection
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**WARNING:**
This package is still under heavy development, and may lack some
necessary features or even fail to run correctly.
It is *NOT* recommended to use it at the moment!
Nevertheless, *tests and feedback* are always welcome!


This |fg21sim|_ package provides the tools to simulate the
*realistic* low-frequency radio foregrounds, which can be further
used to test various foreground removal or separation methods, for the
purpose of successfully detecting the 21cm cosmological signal arising
from the neutral hydrogen (HI) at epoch of reionization (EoR).


Features
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* Supported foreground components:

  + ``galactic/synchrotron``:
    Galactic synchrotron emission (*Note:* only *unpolarized* considered now)
  + ``galactic/freefree``:
    Galactic free-free emission
  + ``galactic/snr``:
    Emission from Galactic supernovae remnants (SNRs)
  + ``extragalactic/clusters``:
    Emission from extragalactic clusters of galaxies
    (*Note:* only radio *halos* considered at the moment)
  + ``extragalactic/pointsources``:
    Emission from multiple types of extragalactic discrete point sources
    (*Note:* this component was contributed by Zhixian MA, and is not well
    integrated and tested at the moment)

    Current supported point sources types:

    - Star-forming galaxies
    - Star-bursting galaxies
    - Radio-quiet AGNs
    - Fanaroff-Riley type I (FR-I) AGNs
    - Fanaroff-Riley type II (FR-II) AGNs

* All-sky simulation (with HEALPix)
  (*Note:* partial-sky simulation is a WIP ...)
* Configuration file allowing fine-grained control
* Modular and well-designed API
* Easy-to-use command line tools (CLI)
* Full-featured Web UI
  (*Note:* recent Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Edge, and IE >=11 are supported)
* Handy utilities


Requirements
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* Linux operating system (other UNIX-like systems not tested)
* `Python <https://www.python.org/>`_: >= 3.4
* `CFITSIO <https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html>`_
* `HEALPix <http://healpix.sourceforge.net/>`_:
  only the C++ library required by `healpy <https://github.com/healpy/healpy>`_.
* `LLVM <http://llvm.org/>`_:
  (required by `llvmlite <http://llvmlite.pydata.org/>`_ which is a
  dependency of `Numba <http://numba.pydata.org/>`_)


Installation
------------
1. Clone this repository::

   $ git clone https://github.com/liweitianux/fg21sim

2. Install the above required software and libraries.

3. Install the required third-party Python packages.
   And it is recommended to use the `virtual environment`_::

   $ cd fg21sim/
   $ make venv
   $ . ./venv/bin/activate

   Check to make sure that this virtual environment is activated so that the
   default ``python3`` and ``pip3`` is pointed to the virtual environment.

4. Install this ``fg21sim`` package to the virtual environment::

   $ python3 setup.py install

5. You are ready to use this package. Just have a look, e.g.::

   $ fg21sim --help
   $ fg21sim-webui --help


Development
-----------
To ease development and tests, you may want to install this package in
an **editable state**, instead of using the *virtual environment*::

    $ cd fg21sim/
    $ pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
    $ pip3 install --editable .


Documentations
--------------
To get started, read the `User Guide`_.

**WARNING:**
The documentation is *out-of-date* with the current code, and needs
significant updates!


Contributions
-------------
Great!  Be sure to consult the guidelines in |CONTRIBUTING.md|_.


Authors
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* Weitian LI <``weitian@aaronly.me``>


Contributors
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* Zhixian MA <``zxma_sjtu@qq.com``>


License
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Unless otherwise declared:

* Codes developed by us are distributed under the `MIT License`_;
* Documentations and products generated by us are distributed under the
  `Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License`_;
* Third-party codes and products used are distributed under their own
  licenses.  See also |LICENSE-3RDPARTY|_.


..
   Workaround for nested inline markups:
   http://docutils.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#is-nested-inline-markup-possible
   https://stackoverflow.com/a/4836544/4856091

.. |fg21sim| replace:: **fg21sim**
.. _fg21sim: https://github.com/liweitianux/fg21sim
.. _`User Guide`:
   https://github.com/liweitianux/fg21sim/blob/master/docs/guide.rst
.. |CONTRIBUTING.md| replace:: ``CONTRIBUTING.md``
.. _CONTRIBUTING.md:
   https://github.com/liweitianux/fg21sim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
.. |LICENSE-3RDPARTY| replace:: ``LICENSE-3RDPARTY``
.. _LICENSE-3RDPARTY:
   https://github.com/liweitianux/fg21sim/blob/master/LICENSE-3RDPARTY
.. _`virtual environment`:
   https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
.. _`MIT License`: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
.. _`Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License`:
   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US