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. Blast is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC21K0834 issued through the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program.

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 California, Santa Cruz)
  • Dave Coulter (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Lila Braff (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Kayla Loertscher (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Zhisen Lai (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Jack Kutcka (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • T. Andrew Manning (NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Project Usage Repository Paper DOI Website
Astropy Used in almost all aspects of the project https://github.com/astropy/astropy ADS 10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f https://www.astropy.org
NumPy Used in almost all aspects of the project https://github.com/numpy/numpy ADS 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 https://numpy.org
GHOST Used to match transients to host galaxies https://github.com/uiucsn/astro_ghost ADS 10.3847/1538-4357/abd02b https://ghost.ncsa.illinois.edu
photutils Used for the host aperture photometry https://github.com/astropy/photutils ADS 10.5281/zenodo.6385735 https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Astroquery Used for gathering external data for transients https://github.com/astropy/astroquery ADS 10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33 https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
HiPS Used in the cutout generation https://github.com/hipspy/hips ADS 10.1051/0004-6361/201526075 https://hips.readthedocs.io
dynesty Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters https://github.com/joshspeagle/dynesty ADS 10.1093/mnras/staa278 https://dynesty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Prospector Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters https://github.com/bd-j/prospector ADS 10.3847/1538-4365/abef67 https://prospect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
sedpy Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters https://github.com/bd-j/sedpy ADS 10.5281/zenodo.4582723 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ascl.soft05026J/abstract
SVO Filter Profile Service Used in the inference of host galaxy parameters https://github.com/hover2pi/svo_filters ADS 10.5479/ADS/bib/2012ivoa.rept.1015R https://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/main/index.php
Python FSPS Used to generate spectra and magnitude for arbitrary stellar populations https://github.com/dfm/python-fsps/tree/v0.4.1rc1 ADS 10.5281/zenodo.4737461 https://dfm.io/python-fsps/current/