Welcome to REDBACK’s documentation!

Contents:

• Installation
  • Install redback from source
  • Install phantomjs
• Code motivation
  • How redback can be useful to you
  • Advantages of the interface to bilby
• Basics of Bayesian inference and parameter estimation
  • redback workflow
  • More advanced fitting functionality
• Likelihood
  • Regular likelihoods
  • More advanced likelihoods
  • Write your own likelihood
• Priors
  • Analytical priors
  • Interpolated or from file
  • Constrained priors
  • Adding sigma to the prior
• Get data
  • Basic processing and metadata
  • Private data or simulated data
  • Adding filters to Redback
• Transients
  • General transient object
  • Specific transient object
  • Data modes
  • Loading catalog data
  • Loading private/simulated data
• Models
  • Using redback models as functions
  • Modifying redback models
  • Extra kwargs and output formats in redback models
• Simulation
  • Use simulated data to test the inference pipeline
• Making changes to models and plotting using dependency injections
  • Modifying a model physics/Creating a new model
  • Modifying plot_lightcurve
  • Using your own cosmology
• Plotting
• Analysis
• Fitting
  • Samplers
  • Fitting with redback
  • Fitting with your own/different likelihood
• Results
  • Fitting your favourite transient
  • Changing the likelihood used for fitting
  • Plotting lightcurves and corner plots
  • Further analysis
  • Loading a result file
• Joint likelihood
• Examples
• Acknowledgements
  • Using redback to fit transients
  • Using redback to simulate transients
  • Using redback to download transient data
  • General citation text
• Contributing

API:

get_data
priors
plotting
eos
constraints
analysis
ejecta_relations
interaction_processes
utils
transient
transient_models
sampler
result
sed
simulate_transients
photosphere
likelihoods