ARTIS (Sim 2007; Kromer & Sim 2009) is a 3D radiative transfer code for Type Ia supernovae using the Monte Carlo method with indivisible energy packets (Lucy 2002). The latest version incorporates polarisation and virtual packets (Bulla et al. 2015), non-LTE physics appropriate for the nebular phase of Type Ia supernovae (Shingles et al. 2020), and alpha- and beta-decays with time-dependent thermalisation (Shingles et al. 2023).
The ARTIS source code is available because it forms part of the method used in published scientific results. Anyone interested in understanding the detailed numerical techniques (in greater detail than the published descriptions) used to obtain those results now has access to this information. We anticipate that other scientific software developers could find our code useful as a reference, and in this case we ask that authors of any derivative works acknowledge and cite the ARTIS collaboration. This is in additional to the legal requirements of attribution and preservation of copyright notices on any substantial copies under the BSD 3-Clause licence.
We are not able to provide support to users of the code outside our team of collaborators.
Distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license. See LICENSE for more information.