fjebaker / astro-introductions-2023

astro-introductions-2023

Setup

Activate the repository root directory and instantiate the environment:

julia>] activate
julia>] registry add https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General
julia>] registry add https://github.com/astro-group-bristol/AstroRegistry
julia>] instantiate

Usage

To generate a gif of a picture spinning around a black hole, rename your image to ./input.jpg (else adjust the script), and run with

julia -tauto --project=. ./black-hole-face/run.jl

To generate the plot of Böögg Time to Explode versus temperature, along with the simple linear fit, simply run

julia --project=. ./boogg-plot/boogg.jl

References

Sources used gather time to explode throughout the years:

• SRF Super Sommer
• SRF Sechselauten 2019
• SRF Der Boeoeggometer

Meteorological data from MeteoSwiss:

Method: Begert M, Frei C. 2018. Long-term area-mean temperature series for Switzerland - Combining homogenized station data and high resolution grid data. Int. J. Climatol., 38: 2792-2807. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5460
Dataset: MeteoSwiss. Area-mean temperatures of Switzerland. doi:10.18751/Climate/Timeseries/CHTM/1.3