Citing FitTeD¶

If you use FitTeD in your research, please cite the method paper.

Paper¶

Mummery, A., Nathan, E., Ingram, A. & Gardner, M. (2025), Fitting transients with discs (FITTED): a public light curve and spectral fitting package based on evolving relativistic discs, MNRAS 544, 2225–2240, doi:10.1093/mnras/staf1565.

BibTeX¶

@ARTICLE{2025MNRAS.544.2225M,
       author = {{Mummery}, Andrew and {Nathan}, Edward and {Ingram}, Adam and {Gardner}, M.},
        title = "{Fitting transients with discs (FITTED): a public light curve and spectral fitting package based on evolving relativistic discs}",
      journal = {\mnras},
     keywords = {accretion, accretion discs, black hole physics, transients: tidal disruption events, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena},
         year = 2025,
        month = dec,
       volume = {544},
       number = {2},
        pages = {2225-2240},
          doi = {10.1093/mnras/staf1565},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2408.15048},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.HE},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.544.2225M},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

The authoritative copy is cite_fitted.bib in the repository root. The block above is checked against it on every documentation build, so the two cannot drift apart.

Software version¶

If the specific version matters to your result — and for anything involving the disc numerics it does — cite the release as well as the paper. Record the version you ran:

import fitted
print(fitted.__version__)

Components with their own provenance¶

Ray tracing. The Kerr ray tracer in fitted/models/raytrace/ is a vendored subset of kerrgeo, with a method paper in preparation. See raytrace/PROVENANCE.md in the repository for exactly which version was vendored and what was excluded.

Photometry. If you loaded data with manyTDE_name=, the photometry comes from manyTDE (van Velzen et al.) and should be cited accordingly, along with the original sources for the individual light curves.

Cosmology. Distances are computed with astropy.cosmology.Planck18 unless you supply your own.