Welcome to ProDiMo

Disclaimer

This code is available on a collaborative basis, meaning ...

  • You are not permitted to pass (any parts of) the code to anyone else. If another person is interested to join, please tell him/her to follow the same procedure as you have done.
  • You have to give at least one of the developers of ProDiMo, currently Peter Woitke, Inga Kamp, Wing-Fai Thi and Christian Rab co-author rights. You should contact at least one of us in the paper preparation stage to ensure proper usage of the code in the valid parameter regime and to help set up ProDiMo models correctly. This person should be offered co-author rights and receive a complete paper draft at least 3 weeks prior to submission.
  • If you make significant contributions to ProDiMo, you can become one of the ProDiMo developers and be listed above, in order to get co-author rights on all papers that use these changes in the future.
  • In order to claim his/her co-author right on a paper going to be submitted, he/she needs to send his/her scientific comments on the paper on timescales of two weeks. Otherwise, he/she loses that right for this paper.
  • If you use ProDiMo for proposals, you don't need to ask us for permission or co-I-ship, but we would appreciate it if you would involve us in an early stage, and you are expected to send us a copy of the submitted proposal.

Remember that, as you can read this wiki page, you have signed up for these conditions.

Please also cite the specific papers when a particular option of ProDiMo is used. When particular input data (input spectrum, collision rate, chemical rates, ...) are used, please also cite the data-papers as required by the authors of those papers in addition to the database description papers.

Public Homepage and Code Description

There is also a public ProDiMo homepage. There you will find among other things some public code description, including some introductory talks (recorded) and a list of code papers (useful for proper citations).

We recommend to take a look at the papers from the Summer School “Protoplanetary Disks: Theory and Modeling Meet Observations”, which provide a great general introduction for disk modelling.

Getting Started

The Getting Started section covers the setup of ProDiMo (installation, compilation etc.)

User Guide

The User Guide starts with a Guide on how to run ProDiMo, and provides a detailed description of all the features and options available in ProDiMo (it is not complete though).

Developer Guide

The Developer Guide is for people who want to contribute to the ProDiMo code. It contains information on how to set up the code, and how to contribute changes.

Some old stuff