Tools for CORSIKA/CoREAS¶

In order to work with template synthesis, you will need to simulate origin showers with CORSIKA. These are simulation which are set up in CoREAS to split the radio emission in each antenna into multiple atmospheric depth bins. To easily produce the input files required for these simulations, we provide some convenience functions in this module.

In the write_simulation submodule, the two main functions live: generate_simulation and write_simulation_to_file. The first one generates the contents of the INP, LIST and REAS file, using the chosen settings. If you so wish (for example because of the job submission process on your compute cluster), you can modify the content before writing it to files. When you are done, you can pass the three arguments to the second function, which will write them to the files. The names of the files are taken from the simulation number which is in the INP file.