FLARE is an astrophysical code written in Python to generate a synthetic catalog of 100,000 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). It uses the Monte Carlo statistical technique to generate a synthetic FRB catalog. It also analyses the resulting catalog and makes its histograms.
FLARE runs FRB generation scripts in parallel, which makes the code very fast.
To install FLARE on a computer, run the following commands in your terminal:
> mkdir FLARE
> cd FLARE
> git clone https://github.com/Kushaalkumar-pothula/FLARE.git
> cd FLARENow you should have the FLARE code successfully installed on your machine.
To generate a synthetic FRB catalog using FLARE, you will need to run gen.sh, which can be done by running the following commands in terminal:
> chmod +x gen.sh
> ./gen.shYou will now find some .txt files, which have the local date-time (during the catalog generation) as a prefix. Each of these .txt files contain a specific property of a mock FRB.
These results are analyzed in a single run of FLARE, and they are saved as .png files.
Going through the FLARE user guide (https://github.com/Kushaalkumar-pothula/FLARE/wiki) is highly recommended. It includes important articles about FLARE, which are helpful for learning to use FLARE.