Notebooks

Tutorial notebooks demonstating the use of EzTaoX for fitting AGN light curves. The first three notebooks are available for live experimentation in a binder instance.

• 1. Damped Random Walk (DRW)
  • 1. Light Curve Simulation
  • 2. Light Curve Fitting
  • 3. MCMC
  • 4. Second-order Statistics
• 2. Damped Harmonic Oscillator (DHO)
  • 1. Light Curve Simulation
  • 2. Fitting
  • 3. MCMC
  • 4. Second-order Statistics
• 3. Multiband DRW Fitting
  • 1. Light Curve Simulation
  • 2. Light Curve Formatting
  • 3. Light Curve Fitting
  • 3.2 Maximum Likelihood (MLE) Fitting
  • A note on model parameters:
  • 4.0 MCMC
  • 5.0 Second-order Statistics
  • 6.0 Lag distribution
• 4. Simulating Multiband Light Curves
  • 1. Initialize a multiband simulator
  • 2. Simulate a full multi-band light curve
  • 3. Simulate randomly sampled observations
  • 4. Simulate observations on a user-provided cadence
• 5. Transfer Functions and Convolved Kernels
  • 1. Setup: Parameters and Transfer Function
  • 2. Approach A — Explicit Convolution
  • 3. Approach B — Direct GP Draw from the Convolved Kernel
  • 4. Light Curve Comparison
  • 5. Structure Function Comparison
  • 6. Interpretation
• 6. Fitting DP1 light curves with LSDB
  • Set up a virtual environment
  • 1. Load DP1 light curves
  • 1.1 Clean light curves
  • 2. EzTaoX fitting
  • 3. Plot some results