Stuff – Astromatic.net

Stuff is a program that simulates “perfect” astronomical catalogues. It generate object lists in ASCII which can read by the SkyMaker program to produce realistic astronomical fields. Stuff is part of the EFIGI development project.

Author: Emmanuel Bertin

What’s new?

2014-03-20 : At last! By popular request, the official versions of nine AstrOmatic packages have been updated and include all the improvements from the development versions.
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2009-05-04 : AstrOmatic binary software is packaged slightly differently from older (TERAPIX) releases. Read about the choices made for packaging AstrOmatic software and the main changes between the old and the new system.
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2007-11-29 : Stuff has now its own web page!
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Code

Source

Binaries

Documentation

There is no Stuff documentation yet.

Acknowledging Stuff

Bertin 2009: SkyMaker: astronomical image simulations made easy, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplement 80, 422 [PDF] [BibTeX entry].

On the web

Some presentation slides by T. Erben (AIfA, Bonn) describing the main software features and how to make good use of them.
Sébastien Carassou’s PhD thesis describing Stuff in the context of likelihood-free inference