Running TARDIS in the commandline

Warning

This option will be removed in the next versions of TARDIS

After installing TARDIS, just download the configuration file from the tardis-setups and the standard atomic data set from the tardis-refdata repository and run TARDIS. Assuming you have wget, you could follow the procedure:

mkdir tardis_example
cd tardis_example
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tardis-sn/tardis-setups/master/2014/2014_kerzendorf_sim/appendix_A1/tardis_example.yml
wget https://github.com/tardis-sn/tardis-refdata/raw/master/atom_data/kurucz_cd23_chianti_H_He.h5
tardis tardis_example.yml output_spectrum.dat

Then plot the output_spectrum.dat with your favourite plotting program. Here’s an example of how to do this with python (the only thing you need to install is ipython and matplotlib — in addition to TARDIS’s requirements).

ipython --pylab
>>> tardis_spec = loadtxt('output_spectrum.dat')
>>> plot(tardis_spec[:,0], tardis_spec[:,1])

More atomic datasets can be downloaded from Atomic Data.