Acknowledgements

Blast is largely glue between already established software projects. It could not exist without them. If you use Blast, you must acknowledge and cite all of the following projects which Blast uses; a BibTeX file is available via the software page of our documentation. Blast is based upon work originally supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC21K0834 issued through the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program.

Currently Blast application development and operation of the public service are funded by:

The public deployment of Blast at https://blast.scimma.org is built and maintained by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and it is hosted on cyberinfrastructure provided by the NSF ACCESS program.

Contributors

• Peter McGill (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• David Jones (University of Hawaiʻi)
• T. Andrew Manning (NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Lila Braff (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Dave Coulter (Space Telescope Science Institute)
• Diego Farias (University of Copenhagen)
• Ryan Foley (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Alex Gagliano (Institute For AI and Fundamental Interactions)
• Jack Kutcka (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Zhisen Lai (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Kayla Loertscher (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Stephen Thorp (Stockholm University)
• Ashley Villar (Harvard University)
• Bingjie Wang (Penn State University)
• Rishabh Bezbarua (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Software

Project	Usage	Repository	Paper	DOI
Astropy	Used in almost all aspects of the project	source repo	ADS	10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f
NumPy	Used in almost all aspects of the project	source repo	ADS	10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
Bokeh	Used to generate interactive data plots
photutils	Used for the host aperture photometry	source repo	ADS	10.5281/zenodo.6385735
Astroquery	Used for gathering external data for transients	source repo	ADS	10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33
HiPS	Used in the cutout generation	source repo	ADS	10.1051/0004-6361/201526075
dynesty	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.1093/mnras/staa278
Prospector	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.3847/1538-4365/abef67
sedpy	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.5281/zenodo.4582723
SVO Filter Profile Service	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.5479/ADS/bib/2012ivoa.rept.1015R
Python FSPS	Used to generate spectra and magnitude for arbitrary stellar populations	source repo	ADS	10.5281/zenodo.4737461
SBI	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.21105/joss.02505
SBI++	Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters	source repo	ADS	10.3847/2041-8213/ace361
Prost	Used to match transients to host galaxies	source repo	ADS