Installation

Important packages

moogpy is a package to run the MOOG and moog17scat spectral synthesis code by Chris Sneden and scattering improvements by Jennifer Sobeck and other updates by Alex Ji. There is also a Python wrapper/driver based on some old IDL software I wrote and some code from Jon Holtzman in the in the APOGEE package).

Installing MOOGPy

The easiest way to install the code is with pip. This will both compile and install the Fortran code as well as the Python wrapper code.

pip install moogpy

Fortran code

The pip install will attempt to automatically compile the Fortran code and copy the binaries to your Python scripts directory (which should be in your path). If this fails for some reason, then you’ll need to compile it yourself. You’ll likely want to do a full git clone of the repository for this. To compile the code you need either the g77` or the GNU Fortran compiler (``gfortran). The Fortran code lives in the src/ directory. All you should need to do is to cd into that directory and type make -f Makefile.xxx where xxx is mac, rh or rh64 for linux/unix. Copy the binaries MOOG and MOOGSILENT to a directory in your path (e.g., ~/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/).

Dependencies