pySYD library

Thanks for stopping by the pySYD documentation and taking an interest in learning more about how it all works – we are so thrilled to share asteroseismology with you!

The Software Package

• Introduction
• pySYD paths
• pySYD inputs
• Software modes
• Target object
• Models & utilities
• Saved outputs
• What next?

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TL;DR

If you do not have time to go through the entire user guide, we have summarized a couple important tidbits that we think you should know before using the software.

• The first is that the userbase for the initial pySYD release was intended for non-expert astronomers. With this in mind, the software was originally developed to be as hands-off as possible – as a *strictly* command-line end-to-end tool. However since then, the software has become more modular in recent updates, thus enabling broader capabilities that can be used across other applications (e.g., Jupyter notebooks).

• In addition to being a command-line tool, the software is optimized for running many stars. This means that many of the options that one would typically use or prefer, such as printing output information and displaying figures, is False by default. For our purposes here though, we will invoke them to better understand how the software operates.

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