Documentation
Welcome to the tulips
documentation! The tulips
python package creates visualizations of stars
based on output from the MESA stellar evolution code. TULIPS represents stars as
circles with varying size and color. Click the links below to learn more about TULIPS through examples,
tutorials, and detailed documentation.
News The TULIPS paper has just been published. With it, example MESA models are now available for download on zenodo .
Tulips diagrams
Additional options
Indices and tables
Contributing
If you wish to submit a new feature or bug fix please send a pull request.
Acknowledgments
tulips makes use of the open-source python modules mesaPlot (Farmer, 2019), matplotlib (Hunter, 2007), numpy (van der Walt et al., 2011), Colorpy (Mark Kness), astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al., 2013, 2018), CMasher (van der Velden, 2020), and ipython/jupyter (Perez and Granger, 2007). Logo design: A. Faber. Documentation: I. de Langen. Created and developed by E. Laplace .
Funding
This project was funded by the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from the European Research Council (ERC, grant agreement No.715063) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the Vidi research program BinWaves with project number 639.042.728. The ET Outreach award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and its sponsors E. van Dishoek and T. de Zeeuw are gratefully acknowledged for making it possible to fund the work of I. de Langen on the TULIPS documentation and tutorials.