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MPE IDL Cloudy Environment

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In april 1996, 5 months after the launch of ISO, MPE hired me to develop a user-friendly package of IDL routines that would facilitate the use of the photo-ionization code Cloudy -- and consequently the interpretation of the spectra relayed to us from the ISO satellite.

After a development phase of 1.5 years, the package was more or less complete by the end of 1997. Since then only small modifications were needed -- most of them triggered by updates to the Cloudy code and as a result from special wishes from local users.

The package currently available offers the following functionalities:

• Easy access to a large set of stellar model SEDs
• Easy integration of these SEDs into Cloudy input files
• Easy computation of grids of Cloudy models
• Easy visualisation of grid results
• Easy visualisation of radial (zonal) output