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).