ArtPop: A Stellar Population and Image Simulation Python Package
  We present Artificial Stellar Populations (ArtPop), an open-source Python
package for synthesizing stellar populations and generating artificial images
of fully populated stellar systems. The code is designed to be intuitive to use
and as modular as possible, making it possible to use each of its
functionalities independently or together. ArtPop has a wide range of
scientific and pedagogical use cases, including the measurement of detection
efficiencies in current and future imaging surveys, the calculation of
integrated stellar population parameters, quantitative comparisons of isochrone
models, and the development and validation of astronomical image processing
algorithms. In this paper, we give an overview of the ArtPop package, provide
simple coding examples to demonstrate its implementation, and present results
from some potential applications of the code. We provide links to the source
code that created each example and figure throughout the paper. ArtPop is under
active development, and we welcome bug reports, feature requests, and code
contributions from the community.
