Light Curve Fitting Documentation

This package contains tools to fit analytical models to multiband light curves of astronomical transients. If you use this code in a publication, please cite the original papers whose models you used (see References), as well as my Zenodo repository.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Light Curves
  • Filters
  • Bolometric Light Curves
  • Model Fitting
  • Calibrating Spectra to Photometry
• Command-Line Utilities
  • speccal
  • rspectext
  • wspectext
  • scombine
  • scopy
  • splot
• API Documentation
  • lightcurve_fitting.bolometric module
  • lightcurve_fitting.filters module
  • lightcurve_fitting.fitting module
  • lightcurve_fitting.lightcurve module
  • lightcurve_fitting.models module
  • lightcurve_fitting.speccal module
• Release History
  • v0.11.3 (2026-10-23)
  • v0.11.2 (2026-10-09)
  • v0.11.1 (2026-09-16)
  • v0.11.0 (2026-09-07)
  • v0.10.0 (2024-05-31)
  • v0.9.0 (2023-06-16)
  • v0.8.0 (2023-04-27)
  • v0.7.0 (2022-10-25)
  • v0.6.0 (2022-05-04)
  • v0.5.0 (2022-03-16)
  • v0.4.0 (2022-02-08)
  • v0.3.0 (2021-09-22)
  • v0.2.0 (2020-12-08)
  • v0.1.0 (2020-06-25)
  • v0.0.0 (2019-04-14)

References

[C08]

Conley et al. 2008, ApJ, 681, 482, doi:10.1086/588518

[H17]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2017, ApJL, 845, L11, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa8402

[H18]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2018, ApJ, 861, 63, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aac5f6

[H22a]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2022a, ApJL, 933, L45, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac7cef

[H22b]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2022b, ApJ, 935, 31, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac75f0

[H23a]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2023a, ApJL, 953, L15, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ace7c0

[H23b]

Hosseinzadeh et al. 2023b, ApJL, 953, L16, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ace4c4

[K10]

Kasen 2010, ApJ, 708, 1025, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/1025

[RW11]

Rabinak & Waxman 2011, ApJ, 728, 63, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/63

[SW17]

Sapir & Waxman 2017, ApJ, 838, 130, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa64df

[MSW23]

Morag, Sapir, & Waxman 2023, MNRAS, 522, 2764, doi:10.1093/mnras/stad899

[M26]

Mohsen-Tanev et al. 2026, ApJ, 1007, 186, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae8772