nikhil-sarin / redback

A Bayesian inference software package for end-to-end fitting and interpretation of electromagnetic transients
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Redback

Introducing REDBACK, a bayesian inference software package for fitting electromagnetic transients

Online documentation

Motivation and why redback might be useful to you.

The launch of new telescopes/surveys is leading to an explosion of transient observations. Redback is a software package for end-to-end interpretation and parameter estimation of these transients.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing please join the redback slack and email Nikhil Sarin.

To make changes to redback, we require users to use a merge request system.

User/Dev calls

We have regular calls for users and developers. These include tutorials on specific redback functionality as well as discussions of new features/feature requests, and Q/A. Please join the slack to get details of these calls.