Anna Tartaglia
Anna Tartaglia is a first year Astronomy Graduate student at Harvard University and NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
Session
07-24
14:50
10min
ScatteringOptics.jl: An Interstellar Scattering Framework
Anna Tartaglia
ScatteringOptics.jl is a Julia package for simulating anisotropic radio wave scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. It leverages Julia’s speed and composability to outperform Python by up to 100× in model computations. The package incorporates phase screen models and integrates with the Bayesian radio interferometric module Comrade.jl. Julia’s high-performance auto-differentiation enables efficient computation and Bayesian inference of complex scattering models.
Julia in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research 2025
Main Room 4