Rave

Rave is a Python package that models the structure of astrophysical disks nonparametrically from images.

Given an input image of an optically thin disk, Rave recovers the face-on surface brightness as a function of radius and vertical height of the disk as a function of radius if sufficiently edge-on.

Publication

This paper provides details of the algorithm and its performance for edge-on disks.

This paper provides details on the updated algorithm optimised for more face-on disks.

Installation

Rave is available at pypi.org/project/rave. We recommend installing via

pip install rave

Demo

See ./demo for demos.