MARXS

Multi-Architecture-Raytrace-Xraymission-Simulator

What does MARXS do?

MARXS (Multi-Architecture-Raytrace-Xraymission-Simulator) is a toolsuite to simulate X-ray observatories. It is primarily aimed at astronomical X-ray satellites and sounding rocket payloads, but can be used to ray-trace experiments in the laboratory as well. MARXS performs polarization Monte-Carlo ray-trace simulations from a source (astronomical or lab) through a collection of optical elements such as mirrors, baffles, and gratings to a detector.

MARXS modular structure is designed to serve two main use cases:

• Build-your-own instrument: Instrument designers can construct any X-ray experiment from a set of building blocks such as mirrors, diffraction gratings and CCD detectors.
• Simulate science observations: Given an instrument configuration, simulate the detector output for any set of X-ray sources in the lab or on the sky.

Installation

See the installation instructions in the documentation.

Citation

Look at the CITATION file for the citation information.

Contributions

We welcome contributions through pull requests on Github. Please follow our code of conduct.