Radio wave transport in solar wind including anisotropic scattering
This package simulates radio wave propagation in the solar wind, including anisotropic scattering effects. It is based on the ray tracing and scattering models described in:
This release (v1.0-nature-communications-2026) is the exact version used in:
Ma, S., Kontar, E., Clarkson, D., Chen, H., & Yan, Y. (2026). Imaging spectroscopy reveals spike-like repeating radio burst pairs in the solar corona. Nature Communications.
The code has been permanently archived on Zenodo with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19688827.
This repository is a fork of the original radio_waves package developed by Eduard Kontar and Daniel Clarkson:
- Original repository: https://github.com/edkontar/radio_waves/
- Original license: MIT License
No functional changes have been made to the core simulation code. This fork exists solely to provide a permanently fixed and citable version for reproducibility purposes.
rays_swind, qeps2_scaling=0.1, anis=0.25, r_init=1.75, asym=1., f_ratio=2.0
# radio_waves
radio wave transport in solar wind including anisotropic scattering
Ray tracing and scattering based on the following papers:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...884..122K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...956..112K/abstract
Calling sequence, e.g. for LOFAR observations:
IDL> rays_swind, qeps2_scaling=0.1, anis=0.25, r_init=1.75, asym=1., f_ratio=2.0
updated June 2022
Python version by D. Clarkson https://github.com/edkontar/radio_waves/commits?author=d-clarkson