Acknowledgements

The paper describing redback is currently in preparation. If you use redback in a scientific publication before this paper is released, please acknowledge the redback software, and cite the github page.

Using redback to fit transients

If you use redback to fit an electromagnetic transient, please cite the Bilby paper, and the redback paper (when it is out).

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 optical transients, we request that you also cite SNCosmo as that is used to convert redback spectra to magnitudes and other quantities.

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 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.

Using redback to simulate transients

If you use the capability of redback to simulate a population of transients, please cite the redback paper (when it is out) 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 (when it is out).