Welcome to REDBACK’s documentation!

Contents:

Installation
- Install redback from source
- Install swifttools
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
- Non-detections / upper limits
- Joint likelihoods
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
- Notes
Transients
- General transient object
- Specific transient object
- Data modes
- Loading catalog data
- Loading private/simulated data
- Non-detections and upper limits
- Working with transient data in MJD
- GP interpolation
- Blackbody temperature and radius estimation.
- Bolometric luminosity estimation.
- Spectrum object
Models
- Model optimizations
- Using redback models as functions
- Modifying redback models
- Extinction
- Extra kwargs and output formats in redback models
- Combining arbitrary models in redback via combined_models.afterglow_and_optical
- A note about general assumptions in redback models.
- Plugin models
Simulation
- Use simulated data to test the inference pipeline
- PopulationSynthesizer and TransientPopulation
- SimulateTransientWithCadence
- SimulateHighEnergyTransient
- Integration Examples
- Examples
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
- Discovering all plotter kwargs
- Corner plot formatting
- Non-detections / upper limits
- Turning off latex rendering
Analysis
- Spectral Template Matching
- Spectral Velocity Fitting
Spectral Template Matching
- Quick Start
- Template Sources
- Loading Templates
- Matching Methods
- Visualization
- Working with Templates
- Advanced Usage
- Example Scripts
- Citing Template Sources
- API Reference
Spectral Line Profile Models
- Line Profile Functions
- P-Cygni Profiles
- Multi-Line Spectra
- Velocity Measurements
- Example Workflow
- High-Energy Spectral Models
- References
X-ray and Gamma-ray Spectral Fitting
- Overview
- Simulating High-Energy Transients
- Loading OGIP Data
- Spectral Models
- Fitting Count Spectra
- Flux Measurement
- Plotting
- Priors
- Examples
Fitting
- Samplers
- Fitting with redback
- Fitting models with extinction, phase, or additional effects
- Fitting bolometric luminosities of optical transients
- Fitting with your own/different likelihood
- Using MPI
Results
- Fitting your favourite transient
- Changing the likelihood used for fitting
- Plotting lightcurves and corner plots
- Further analysis
- Loading a result file
- Fitting spectrums
Joint likelihood
Multi-Messenger Analysis
- Overview
- The MultiMessengerTransient class
- Joint Analysis
- Individual Fits for Comparison
- Joint Spectrum and Photometry Analysis
- Joint Galaxy and Transient Spectrum Analysis
- Advanced: Including Gravitational Wave Data
- Utility Functions
- Examples
- Best Practices
- Common Pitfalls
- References
Examples
Acknowledgement/Citations
- Using redback to fit transients
- Using redback to simulate transients
- Using redback to download transient data
- General citation text
Contributing
- Contributing new models or modifying existing models
- Contributing a new feature
- Plugin models/features through dependency injection
- General help/dev sessions

API:

`get_data`
`priors`
`plotting`
`eos`
`constraints`
`analysis`
`ejecta_relations`
`interaction_processes`
`utils`
`transient`
`transient_models`
`sampler`
`result`
`sed`
`simulate_transients`
`photosphere`
`likelihoods`
`multimessenger`	Multi-messenger analysis framework for joint fitting of transient data across multiple messengers.