NPTFit: A Code for Non-Poissonian Template Fitting

We present NPTFit, an open-source code package, written in Python and Cython, for performing non-Poissonian template fits (NPTFs). The NPTF is a recently developed statistical procedure for characterizing the contribution of unresolved point sources (PSs) to astrophysical data sets. The NPTF was fir...

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Main Authors: Mishra-Sharma, Siddharth, Rodd, Nicholas Llewellyn, Safdi, Benjamin Ryan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112297
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3472-7606
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9531-1319