Acknowledgement/Citations

The paper describing redback is submitted and available here. If you use redback in a scientific publication please cite this paper and mention it as a software used depending on the journal. Some specific instances/examples of acknowledgements are given below. The main repository includes a bibtex citation for the redback paper.

Using redback to fit transients

If you use redback to fit an electromagnetic transient, please cite the Bilby paper, and the redback paper.

Alongside this we request that you also cite the paper associated with the sampler you use. Furthermore, several models implemented in redback are introduced in previous scientific publications. These scientific publications are easily accessible via model_name.citation or as a reference in a class.

For example,

from redback.transient_models import kilonova_models
import numpy as np

citation = kilonova_models.one_component_kilonova_model.citation

Here citation will be a url or a series of urls to the NASA ads page for the paper describing the model. If you use a specific model or build upon it, we request that you also cite the paper for the model.

In several cases, the citation will be redback, in which case, only a citation to redback, bilby, and the sampler is necessary. Although we recommend periodically checking the citation in the latest redback release.

For optical transients (if you fit in magnitudes/flux), we request that you also cite SNCosmo as that is used to convert redback spectra to magnitudes and integrated bandpass flux.

Using redback to simulate transients

If you use the capability of redback to simulate a population of transients, please cite the redback paper and the paper for the model you use.

Using redback to download transient data

If you use redback to simply download and process data for different transients, please cite the redback paper.

General citation text

We recommend something like the following text for citing redback in a scientific publication:

For using redback to fit transients:

  • We fit the transient using the open source software package {sc Redback}~cite{sarin_redback}, with the {model_name}~citep{model reference} model using the {sampler} sampler~citep{sampler reference} wrapped with bilby~citep{Ashton+2019}.

For using redback to simulate transients:

  • We simulate transients using the open source software package {sc Redback}~cite{sarin_redback}, with the {model_name}~citep{model reference} model.

For using redback to download transient data:

  • We download and process this data using the API provided for {name of data source}~citep{citation to the source} by the open source software package {sc Redback}~cite{sarin_redback}.

For using redback to estimate blackbody temperatures/radius and luminosities:

  • We estimate the blackbody temperature/radius (and/or) luminosities using {sc Redback}~cite{sarin_redback}.

For using redback to do any GP interpolation:

  • We interpolate using a Gaussian Process with the kernel {kernel} available in {sc george}~citep{george paper} through the {sc Redback} package~cite{sarin_redback}.