Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: SNOC: a Monte-Carlo simulation package for high-z supernova observations   We present a Monte-Carlo package for simulation of high-redshift supernova
data, SNOC. Optical and near-infrared photons from supernovae are ray-traced
over cosmological distances from the simulated host galaxy to the observer at
Earth. The distances to the sources are calculated from user provided
cosmological parameters in a Friedmann-Lemaitre universe, allowing for
arbitrary forms of ``dark energy''. The code takes into account gravitational
interactions (lensing) and extinction by dust, both in the host galaxy and in
the line-of-sight. The user can also choose to include exotic effects like a
hypothetical attenuation due to photon-axion oscillations. SNOC is primarily
useful for estimations of cosmological parameter uncertainties from studies of
apparent brightness of Type Ia supernovae vs redshift, with special emphasis on
potential systematic effects. It can also be used to compute standard
cosmological quantities like luminosity distance, lookback time and age of the
universe in any Friedmann-Lemaitre model with or without quintessence.

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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: physics