pyROX: Rapid Opacity X-sections

pyROX: Rapid Opacity X-sections#

Welcome to the pyROX documentation! pyROX is a Python package for calculating opacity cross-sections for sub-stellar atmospheres. It can handle line opacities using various databases (ExoMol, HITRAN, Kurucz) and also supports the calculation of collision-induced absorption coefficients (HITRAN, Borysow).

Installation#

To install pyROX, clone the repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/samderegt/pyROX

Next, navigate to the cloned directory and install the package using pip:

cd pyROX
pip install .

License and Acknowledgements#

pyROX is available under the MIT License.

The package is developed and maintained by Sam de Regt, with contributions from Siddharth Gandhi, Louis Siebenaler, and Darío González Picos.

If you used pyROX for your research, please cite the following paper:

@ARTICLE{2025arXiv251020870D,
      author = {{de Regt}, Sam and {Gandhi}, Siddharth and {Siebenaler}, Louis and {Gonz{\'a}lez Picos}, Dar{\'\i}o},
      title = "{pyROX: Rapid Opacity X-sections}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
   keywords = {Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
         year = 2025,
      month = oct,
         eid = {arXiv:2510.20870},
      pages = {arXiv:2510.20870},
         doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2510.20870},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2510.20870},
primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
      adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv251020870D},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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