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Redback: A Bayesian inference software package for electromagnetic transients

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arxiv 2308.12806 v2 pith:BTMHS3LN submitted 2023-08-24 astro-ph.HE

Nikhil Sarin , Moritz Hübner , Conor M. B. Omand , Christian N. Setzer , Steve Schulze , Naresh Adhikari , Ana Sagués-Carracedo , Shanika Galaudage
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Fulfilling the rich promise of rapid advances in time-domain astronomy is only possible through confronting our observations with physical models and extracting the parameters that best describe what we see. Here, we introduce {\sc Redback}; a Bayesian inference software package for electromagnetic transients. {\sc Redback} provides an object-orientated {\sc python} interface to over 12 different samplers and over 100 different models for kilonovae, supernovae, gamma-ray burst afterglows, tidal disruption events, engine-driven transients among other explosive transients. The models range in complexity from simple analytical and semi-analytical models to surrogates built upon numerical simulations accelerated via machine learning. {\sc Redback} also provides a simple interface for downloading and processing data from various catalogs such as \textit{Swift} and Fink. The software can also serve as an engine to simulate transients for telescopes such as the Zwicky Transient Facility and Vera Rubin with realistic cadences, limiting magnitudes, and sky-coverage or a hypothetical user-constructed survey or a generic transient for target-of-opportunity observations with different telescopes. As a demonstration of its capabilities, we show how {\sc Redback} can be used to jointly fit the spectrum and photometry of a kilonova, enabling a more powerful, holistic probe into the properties of a transient. We also showcase general examples of how {\sc Redback} can be used as a tool to simulate transients for realistic surveys, fit models to real, simulated, or private data, multi-messenger inference with gravitational waves, and serve as an end-to-end software toolkit for parameter estimation and interpreting the nature of electromagnetic transients.

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