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The Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST) Python Library

The Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST) Python Library - Published in JOSS (2025)

https://github.com/paranoya/population-synthesis-toolkit

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Keywords

astronomy-astrophysics galaxies
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Repository

A Python library for stellar population synthesis in galaxies: spectral synthesis, broadband photometry, SED fitting, etc.

Basic Info
Statistics
  • Stars: 9
  • Watchers: 4
  • Forks: 3
  • Open Issues: 12
  • Releases: 2
Topics
astronomy-astrophysics galaxies
Created over 6 years ago · Last pushed 7 months ago
Metadata Files
Readme Contributing License Citation

README.md

Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST)

PST is a very flexible tool that allows users to perform stellar population synthesis using a variety of SSP models, as well as computing observables quantities such as spectra, photometry or equivalent widths from both synthetic and observational data.

Status

Documentation Status Unit tests DOI

Documentation

Check the documentation page for extensive information.

Installation

Follow the instructions at the installation section in the documentation page for details on installing PST.

Tutorials

The tutorials illustrate the basic functionality of PST through simple example use cases.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the project, feel free to report any issues you may find and/or fork this repository and open a pull request.

Owner

  • Name: Yago Ascasibar
  • Login: paranoya
  • Kind: user
  • Company: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

JOSS Publication

The Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST) Python Library
Published
July 28, 2025
DOI
Volume 10, Issue 111, Page 8203
Authors
Pablo Corcho-Caballero ORCID
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Yago Ascasibar ORCID
Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental (CIAFF-UAM), Spain
Daniel Jiménez-López ORCID
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN), Spain
Editor
Ivelina Momcheva ORCID
Tags
astronomy astrophysics galaxies stellar population synthesis
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Citation (CITATION.cff) 

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  given-names: Yago
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-2479"
- family-names: Jiménez-López
  given-names: Daniel
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2907-8691"
contact:
- family-names: Corcho-Caballero
  given-names: Pablo
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- family-names: Ascasibar
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  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-2479"
- family-names: Jiménez-López
  given-names: Daniel
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2907-8691"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16322123
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
  Journal of Open Source Software.
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  authors:
  - family-names: Corcho-Caballero
    given-names: Pablo
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  - family-names: Ascasibar
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  - family-names: Jiménez-López
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  date-published: 2025-07-28
  doi: 10.21105/joss.08203
  issn: 2475-9066
  issue: 111
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
  publisher:
    name: Open Journals
  start: 8203
  title: The Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST) Python Library
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  url: "https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08203"
  volume: 10
title: The Population Synthesis Toolkit (PST) Python Library

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Issues and Pull Requests

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All Time
  • Total issues: 6
  • Total pull requests: 13
  • Average time to close issues: 4 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 25 days
  • Total issue authors: 3
  • Total pull request authors: 4
  • Average comments per issue: 0.5
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.38
  • Merged pull requests: 9
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
  • Issues: 6
  • Pull requests: 13
  • Average time to close issues: 4 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 25 days
  • Issue authors: 3
  • Pull request authors: 4
  • Average comments per issue: 0.5
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.38
  • Merged pull requests: 9
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
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Top Authors
Issue Authors
  • PabloCorcho (20)
  • Danieljl96 (3)
  • Sujay-Shankar (2)
  • warrickball (1)
  • paranoya (1)
Pull Request Authors
  • PabloCorcho (36)
  • paranoya (6)
  • Danieljl96 (2)
  • ivastar (1)
  • warrickball (1)
Top Labels
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version 2.0 (2) bug (1)
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version 2.0 (1)

Packages

  • Total packages: 1
  • Total downloads:
    • pypi 84 last-month
  • Total dependent packages: 0
  • Total dependent repositories: 0
  • Total versions: 3
  • Total maintainers: 2
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Population Synthesis Toolkit

  • Documentation: https://population-synthesis-toolkit.readthedocs.io/
  • License: BSD 3-Clause License Copyright (c) 2020, pst All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  • Latest release: 1.1.1
    published 7 months ago
  • Versions: 3
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 84 Last month
Rankings
Dependent packages count: 9.9%
Average: 32.7%
Dependent repos count: 55.6%
Maintainers (2)
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Last synced: 6 months ago