Purpose: The Web Infrared Tool Shed is a collection of web pages and programs ("tool boxes") for the analysis of astronomical objects that emit primarily in the wavelength range 2 µm to 1 mm. The goal of WITS is to provide the astronomical community with a uniform set of models over a large parameter space of source properties.

Author: M. Wolfire (UMD)
Date Contributed: 10 Nov 2004
System Requirements: Web Resource; Java

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Go to the Web Infrared Tool Shed

WITS currently consists of:

• PDR Toolbox (PDRT) - plots of physical parameters (surface temperature, gas density, incident radiation field) as a function of observables (spectral line intensities and ratios) for standard model photodissociation regions (PDRs); and interactive fitting of observables to models.

• Dust InfraRed Toolbox (DIRT) - a comprehensive Java applet for modelling astrophysical process in circumstellar dust shells around young and evolved stars.