Creating Grids

Introduction

Advanced users can create their own synthesizer grids. These can be intrinsic grids of stellar emission, generated from stellar population synthesis models, or grids post-processed through photoionisation codes such as cloudy.

The code for creating custom grids is contained in a separate repository, synthesizer-grids. You will need a working installation of synthesizer for these scripts to work, as well as other dependencies for specific codes (e.g. CLOUDY, python-FSPS).

Grids should follow the naming convention where possible, see Grid naming.

Abundances

The next page demonstrates how to modify the chemical abundance pattern of gas, stars and dust using the abundances` object, and use this when running cloudy.