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popclass: a python package for classifying microlensing events

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2024-10-21 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

popclass is a python package that provides a flexible, probabilistic framework for classifying the lens of a gravitational microlensing event. popclass allows a user to match characteristics of a microlensing signal to a simulation of the Galaxy to calculate lens type probabilities for an event. Constraints on any microlensing signal characteristics and any Galactic model can be used. popclass comes with an interface to common inference libraries for microlensing signal constraints, pre-loaded Galactic models, plotting functionality, and classification uncertainty quantification methods.

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@article{arxiv.2410.14076,
  title  = {popclass: a python package for classifying microlensing events},
  author = {Greg Sallaberry and Zofia Kaczmarek and Peter McGill and Scott E. Perkins and William A. Dawson and Caitlin G. Begbie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14076},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to JOSS. Code available at https://github.com/LLNL/popclass

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