This is a fast supernova neutrino simulation designed for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The original version, called the Unified Supernova Simulation Routine (USSR), was written in C++ by Thomas Kowarik and Gösta Kroll at Universität Mainz in 2011. This project began as a Python port of the original program.
The code uses estimates of the supernova neutrino luminosity from large-scale simulations of core-collapse supernovae to calculate photons in the IceCube detector.
ASTERIA can be cloned from this GitHub repository in the usual way by running
git clone https://github.com/icecube/ASTERIA.git
ASTERIA can be installed by cloning the repository and running
cd /path/to/asteria
pip install . [--user]
ASTERIA is configured in such a way that the following directories will be automatically generated if they are missing, but their content will be ignored by git.
/path/to/asteria_folder/scratch
/path/to/asteria_folder/data/
/scratch is intended to be user work space.
/data/processed contains processed simulation files, which are potentially large.
ASTERIA is free software licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.