MOSFiT

Welcome to the documentation for MOSFiT (The Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients), a Python 2.7/3.x package for fitting, sharing, and estimating the parameters of transients via user-contributed transient models.

Please see the links below for information on how to install and run the package.

Using MOSFiT

• Installation
  • Setting up MOSFiT with Anaconda
  • Installing with pip
  • Installing from source
• Getting started
  • Parallel execution
  • Using your own data
  • Producing outputs
  • Visualizing outputs
  • Sharing data and outputs with the community
  • Troubleshooting
• Models
  • List of built-in models
  • Altering an existing model
  • Creating a new model
• Fitting data
  • Public data
  • Private data
  • Sampling Options
  • Input and output locations
  • Fixing model parameters
  • Initializing from previous runs
• Outputs
  • Light curve options
  • Mock light curves in a magnitude-limited survey
  • Saving the chain
  • Arbitrary outputs
• Using as a package
  • Produce model outputs
• Assessing models
  • Convergence
  • Scoring
• Model errors
  • Maximum likelihood analysis
  • Gaussian processes
• Accessibility
  • Language
• Help
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Contact
• Command line arguments
  • mosfit
• API
  • mosfit.modules Package

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

License & Attribution

Copyright 2016-2018, James Guillochon, Matt Nicholl, and contributors.

The source code is made available under the terms of the MIT license.