Frankenstein (frank) is a library that fits the 1D radial brightness profile of an interferometric source given a set of visibilities. It uses a Gaussian process that performs the fit in <1 minute for a typical protoplanetary disc continuum dataset.
Get the code
pip install frank
Documentation
Check out the docs.
Attribution
If you use frank for your research please cite Jennings, Booth, Tazzari et al. 2020 MNRAS 495(3) 3209 [MNRAS] [ADS] [arXiv] [Zenodo]:
@ARTICLE{2020MNRAS.495.3209J,
author = {{Jennings}, Jeff and {Booth}, Richard A. and {Tazzari}, Marco and {Rosotti}, Giovanni P. and {Clarke}, Cathie J.},
title = "{frankenstein: protoplanetary disc brightness profile reconstruction at sub-beam resolution with a rapid Gaussian process}",
journal = {\mnras},
keywords = {methods: data analysis, protoplanetary discs, techniques: interferometric, planets and satellites: detection, submillimetre: general, submillimetre: planetary systems, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
year = 2020,
month = jul,
volume = {495},
number = {3},
pages = {3209-3232},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/staa1365},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2005.07709},
primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.495.3209J},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}
These papers cite frank.
Authors
Contact
Submit a bug report or feature request on the issues page. For anything else, feel free to email Jeff.
License
frank is free software licensed under the LGPLv3 License. For more details see the LICENSE.
© Copyright 2019-2022 Richard Booth, Jeff Jennings, Marco Tazzari.
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