CORSIKA simulations

CORSIKA is an Air Shower Simulation Program. To be used for detailed simulation of extensive air showers initiated by high-energy cosmic-ray particles.

This module makes it easy to work with CORSIKA output, it was original written by Javier Gonzalez and adapted for HiSPARC by Arne de Laat.

This documentation sometimes refers to the CORSIKA users manual, this users manual can be found here CORSIKA User’s Guide

In addition to reading CORSIKA output, functionally is provided to easily submit many CORSIKA jobs to the Nikhef batch facility (Stoomboot).

CORSIKA Module

Process CORSIKA simulation data.

This package contains modules for working with CORSIKA simulations:

blocks

classes for the block and subblocks in CORSIKA data

corsika_queries

select CORSIKA showers from a corsika overview

generate_corsika_overview

generate an overview table of available CORSIKA simulations

particles

convert CORSIKA particle codes to common names

qsub_corsika

submit CORSIKA simulations to the Nikhef Stoomboot facility

qsub_store_corsika_data

submit store CORSIKA jobs to the Nikhef Stoomboot facility

reader

read CORSIKA data files into Python

store_corsika_data

convert CORSIKA data files to HDF5 files

units

convert values in units used by CORSIKA to HiSPARC units

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