Scripts

This document describes the scripts packaged with ne2001.

ne2001_lb

Calculate quantities along an input Galactic line-of-sight. Main inputs are longitude and latitude. Here is the usage:

ne2001_lb -h
usage: ne2001_lb [-h] [-d D] l b

Calculate quantities along a Galactic sightline v0.1

positional arguments:
  l           Galactic longitude (deg)
  b           Galactic latitude (deg)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -d D        Distance (kpc)

Currently, this script calculates the DM along the sightline to a default distance of 100 kpc.