Software

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. We include a file with all citations in BibTex format.

If you see your software being used in Blast and we have not cited you properly, please raise an issue on GitHub.

Software	Repository	Citation information
Astropy	https://github.com/astropy/astropy	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ….156..123A/abstract
NumPy	https://github.com/numpy/numpy	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Natur.585..357H/abstract
Bokeh	https://bokeh.org/
GHOST	https://github.com/uiucsn/astro_ghost	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…908..170G/abstract
photutils	https://github.com/astropy/photutils	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6385735
Astroquery	https://github.com/astropy/astroquery	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AJ….157…98G/abstract
HiPS	https://github.com/hipspy/hips	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A…578A.114F/abstract
dynesty	https://github.com/joshspeagle/dynesty	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.493.3132S/abstract
Prospector	https://github.com/bd-j/prospector	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJS..254…22J/abstract
sedpy	https://github.com/bd-j/sedpy	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582723
SVO Filter Profile Service	https://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/main/index.php	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020sea..confE.182R/abstract
Healpy	https://github.com/healpy/healpy	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JOSS….4.1298Z/abstract
Python FSPS	https://github.com/dfm/python-fsps/tree/v0.4.1rc1	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4737461
SBI	https://sbi-dev.github.io/sbi/latest/	https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02505
SBI++	https://github.com/wangbingjie/sbi_pp	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ace361
Prost	https://github.com/alexandergagliano/Prost	https://astro-prost.readthedocs.io/