Welcome to the PHRINGE Docs

PHRINGE is a PHotoelectron counts generatoR for nullING intErferometers. It offers GPU-accelerated generation of synthetic data for space-based nulling interferometers observing exoplanetary systems. PHRINGE is an open-source Python package and has been developed in the context of the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) mission. It is also used within LIFEsimMC for the data generation part.

Features

• Flexible Instrument Architecture Modeling:

  Support for symbolic input of beam combiner matrices and collector positions thanks to the integration of SymPy.
• Detailed Instrumental Noise Modeling:

  Monte Carlo sampled instrument perturbations such as amplitude, phase and polarization rotation errors.
• Custom Astrophysical Scenes:

  User-specifiable exoplanetary systems with the option for modeling planetary orbital motion.
• Fast Computations:

  Option for GPU-accelerated computations thanks to the integration of PyTorch.
• Support for NIFITS Data Standard:

  Option to export synthetic data sets as NIFITS files thanks to the integration of nifits.

Contact

For questions or other inquiries, please contact the main developer Philipp A. Huber (huberph@phys.ethz.ch).