timothydmorton / isochrones

Pythonic stellar model grid access; easy MCMC fitting of stellar properties
http://isochrones.readthedocs.org
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Citations for dependencies #148

Open JohannesBuchner opened 3 years ago

JohannesBuchner commented 3 years ago

Dear all,

As you know, developing software is a underappreciated activity in astronomy research. The only reward we can obtain are citations. In the documentation, could you please encourage users to also cite the packages isochrones is built upon? Here is an example I have used: https://johannesbuchner.github.io/BXA/#citing-bxa-correctly pymultinest and multinest seem to be relevant in isochrones.

Cheers, Johannes

timothydmorton commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this note, and I apologize for the oversight! I will add such encouragement! I very much appreciate your open-source contributions.

JohannesBuchner commented 3 years ago

Here are some examples of people citing multinest and isochrones, but not pymultinest: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.05372.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05653.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.04603.pdf