Welcome to PISCOLA’s documentation!

PISCOLA is being actively developed in a public repository on GitHub so if you have any trouble, open an issue there.

Getting Started

• Installation
• Environment configuration

Examples

• Basic Example
• Supernova File
• Extensive Example

Further Information

• Filters
• Light Curves
• Gaussian Process: light-curve fits
• Extinction Correction
• Calibration
• Understanding PISCOLA

API User Guide

• Supernova Class
• Filters Class
• Light-Curves Class
• Gaussian Process
• Extinction Correction
• Utils

About the Code

• About the Code

Citing PISCOLA

If you make use of PISCOLA, please cite the following paper:

@ARTICLE{2022MNRAS.512.3266M,
        author = {{M{\"u}ller-Bravo}, Tom{\'a}s E. and {Sullivan}, Mark and {Smith}, Mathew and {Frohmaier}, Chris and {Guti{\'e}rrez}, Claudia P. and {Wiseman}, Philip and {Zontou}, Zoe},
        title = "{PISCOLA: a data-driven transient light-curve fitter}",
        journal = {\mnras},
        keywords = {supernovae: general, cosmology: observations, distance scale, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
        year = 2022,
        month = may,
        volume = {512},
        number = {3},
        pages = {3266-3283},
        doi = {10.1093/mnras/stab3065},
        archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        eprint = {2110.11340},
        primaryClass = {astro-ph.HE},
        adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.512.3266M},
        adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

License & Attribution

Copyright 2021 Tomás E. Müller Bravo.

PISCOLA is being developed by Tomás E. Müller Bravo in a public GitHub repository. The source code is made available under the terms of the MIT license.