AstroNuc 2026#
Jupyter Notebook#
The Jupyter notebook with all of the code for this lab is available on GitHub. You could also clone the whole repository of lab materials to get everything (including these documentation pages) locally by running
git clone https://github.com/TeamCogsworth/cogsworth-school.git
Slides#
The page below shows the slides that I’ll use while teaching this lab. Once you click on the slides you can navigate through them using the arrow keys on your keyboard. I’d recommend opening the slides in a separate tab or window so that you can refer to them while working through the lab.
Overview#
Welcome to this lab everyone, I hope you’ve had an excellent week at AstroNuc 2026! My goal with this lab is to show you how to use cogsworth to track the timing and location of supernovae in galaxies. As you likely know even better than me, the location and timing of these events is crucial for galactic chemical evolution.
We’re going to incrementally develop a suite of simulations that uses cogsworth to track these events and see how they are sensitive to different aspects of binary evolution and galactic dynamics.
Learning Goals#
By the end of this lab, my aim is that you will:
- Understand
how population synthesis simulations create large evolved populations of stars and binaries
how
cogsworthconnects population synthesis to galactic dynamics self-consistently
- Be able to
create your own simulations using
cogsworthtrack the timing and location of supernovae in galaxies
- Have ideas
about the general capabilities of the code
for how to use
cogsworthin your own research!