Dear all,
I hope you will join us for the May LINCC Tech Talk session that will take place on Thursday, May 14, at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern on Zoom (https://ls.st/lincc-talks). We will hear about Redback from Nikhil Sarin.
Redback: A software package for modelling and inference of electromagnetic transients
Fulfilling the rich promise of rapid advances in time-domain astronomy requires confronting our observations with physical models and extracting the parameters that best describe what observe. In this talk, I will showcase Redback, a software package for modelling and inference of electromagnetic transients. Redback provides an object-orientated python interface to over 15 different samplers and over 150 different models for kilonovae, supernovae, gamma-ray burst afterglows, tidal disruption events, engine-driven transients, among other explosive transients while also serving as an engine to simulate observations for surveys such as LSST. I will showcase some general functionality useful for all transient analyses from GP interpolation, blackbody fitting, to bolometric light curve construction. I will also describe the software’s use in recent publications to infer properties of TDEs, supernovae, and the enigmatic FXTs via light curve and spectral modelling and highlight some ongoing developmental efforts facilitated by LINCC frameworks.
LINCC Tech Talks are held on the second Thursday of every month. Events are also advertised at our web page and also provided in calendar form; and the #lincc-tech-talks LSST-DA Slack channel is always available for discussions before, during, and after the talks.