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astro-ph.IM2012★ 37 cited
Probabilistic Catalogs for Crowded Stellar Fields
Brendon J. Brewer, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg
We present and implement a probabilistic (Bayesian) method for producing catalogs from images of stellar fields. The method is capable of inferring the number of sources N in the i…
astro-ph.IM2012★ 12.4k cited
emcee: The MCMC Hammer
Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang +1
We introduce a stable, well tested Python implementation of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) proposed by Goodman & Weare (2010). The code i…