RAPOC: The Rosseland and Planck opacity converter

Mugnai, Lorenzo V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-9802 and Modirrousta-Galian, Darius 2023. RAPOC: The Rosseland and Planck opacity converter. Experimental Astronomy 55 , 521–539. 10.1007/s10686-022-09869-2

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Abstract

RAPOC (Rosseland and Planck Opacity Converter) is a Python 3 code that calculates Rosseland and Planck mean opacities (RPMs) from wavelength-dependent opacities for a given temperature, pressure, and wavelength range. In addition to being user-friendly and rapid, RAPOC can interpolate between discrete data points, making it flexible and widely applicable to the astrophysical and Earth-sciences fields, as well as in engineering. RAPOC uses ExoMol, DACE, or any user defined input data, provided that it is in a readable format. In this paper, we present the RAPOC code and compare its calculated Rosseland and Planck mean opacities with other values in the literature. RAPOC is open-source and available on Pypi and GitHub.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0922-6435
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 May 2023
Date of Acceptance:	26 August 2022
Last Modified:	02 Jun 2023 09:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159673

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