astro-prospector 1.0.0

Stellar Population Inference

Conduct principled inference of stellar population properties from photometric and/or spectroscopic data. Prospector allows you to:

• Infer high-dimensional stellar population properties using parameteric or nonparametric SFHs (with nested or ensemble MCMC sampling)

• Combine photometric and spectroscopic data from the UV to Far-IR rigorously using a flexible spectroscopic calibration model.

• Forward model many aspects of spectroscopic data analysis and calibration, including spectrophotometric calibration and wavelength solution, thus properly incorporating uncertainties in these components in the final parameter uncertainties.

Read the documentation here.

Installation

To install to a conda environment with dependencies, see conda_install.sh.

To install just Prospector:

python -m pip install astro-prospector

To install the latest development version:

cd <install_dir>
git clone https://github.com/bd-j/prospector
cd prospector
python setup.py install

Then in Python

import prospect

See installation for requirements. Other files in the doc/ directory explain the usage of the code, and you can read the documentation here.

See also the tutorial or the interactive demo for fitting photometric data with composite stellar populations.

Example

Inference with mock broadband data, showing the change in posteriors as the number of photometric bands is increased.

Citation

If you use this code, please reference

@MISC{2019ascl.soft05025J,
       author = {{Johnson}, Benjamin D. and {Leja}, Joel L. and {Conroy}, Charlie and
         {Speagle}, Joshua S.},
        title = "{Prospector: Stellar population inference from spectra and SEDs}",
     keywords = {Software},
         year = 2019,
        month = may,
          eid = {ascl:1905.025},
        pages = {ascl:1905.025},
archivePrefix = {ascl},
       eprint = {1905.025},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ascl.soft05025J},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

and make sure to cite the dependencies as listed in installation

You should also cite:

@article{2017ApJ...837..170L,
   author = {{Leja}, J. and {Johnson}, B.~D. and {Conroy}, C. and {van Dokkum}, P.~G. and {Byler}, N.},
   title = "{Deriving Physical Properties from Broadband Photometry with Prospector: Description of the Model and a Demonstration of its Accuracy Using 129 Galaxies in the Local Universe}",
   journal = {\apj},
   year = 2017,
   volume = 837,
   pages = {170},
   eprint = {1609.09073},
   doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa5ffe},
  adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...837..170L},
}