Welcome to DESPOTIC’s documentation!

Contents:

• License and Citations
• Installing DESPOTIC
  • Installing from git
  • Installing from pip
  • Setting Up the Environment
  • Requirements and Dependencies
  • Installing the despotic.winds Module
• Quickstart
  • Introduction
  • The cloud Class
  • Computing Temperatures
  • Line Emission
  • Heating and Cooling Rates
• Functional Guide to DESPOTIC Capabilities
  • Unit Conventions
  • Line Emission
  • Heating and Cooling Rates
  • Temperature Equilibria
  • Time-Dependent Temperature Evolution
  • Chemical Equilibria
  • Simultaneous Chemical and Thermal Equilibria
  • Time-Dependent Chemical Evolution
  • Multi-Zone Clouds
  • Computing Line Profiles
  • Escape Probability Geometries
• Cloud Files
  • File Structure
  • Emitters
• Atomic and Molecular Data
  • The Local Database
  • Keeping the Atomic and Molecular Data Up to Date
  • DESPOTIC’s Internal Model for Atomic and Molecular Data
• Chemistry and Chemical Networks
  • Operations on Chemical Networks
  • Predefined Chemical Networks
  • Defining New Chemical Networks: the chemNetwork Class
  • Helper Modules for Chemical Networks
• Winds
  • Compiling
  • The pwind Class
  • Calculations Using pwind
  • Accuracy Control and Numerical Errors
• Full Documentation of All DESPOTIC Classes and Functions
  • despotic classes
  • despotic functions
  • despotic.chemistry classes
  • despotic.chemistry functions
  • despotic.winds classes
  • despotic.winds functions
• Acknowledgements

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page