About
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``EzTaoX`` is an open-source project and is free for all to use. It is released under the liberal terms of the 
MIT License.

Citation
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If you find ``EzTaoX`` useful for your research, please consider citing the following paper 
`arXiv:2511.21479 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21479>`__,

.. code-block:: bash

    @ARTICLE{Yu2026,
           author = {{Yu}, Weixiang and {Ruan}, John J. and {Burke}, Colin J. and {Assef}, Roberto J. and {Ananna}, Tonima T. and {Bauer}, Franz E. and {De Cicco}, Demetra and {Horne}, Keith and {Hern{\'a}ndez-Garc{\'\i}a}, Lorena and {Ili{\'c}}, Dragana and {Jha}, Vivek Kumar and {Kova{\v{c}}evi{\'c}}, Andjelka B. and {Marculewicz}, Marcin and {Panda}, Swayamtrupta and {Ricci}, Claudio and {Richards}, Gordon T. and {Riffel}, Rogemar A. and {Schneider}, Donald P. and {S{\'a}nchez-S{\'a}ez}, Paula and {Satheesh-Sheeba}, Sarath and {Tombesi}, Francesco and {Temple}, Matthew J. and {Vogeley}, Michael S. and {Yoon}, Ilsang and {Zou}, Fan},
            title = "{Scalable and Robust Multiband Modeling of AGN Light Curves in Rubin-LSST}",
          journal = {\apj},
         keywords = {Active galactic nuclei, Reverberation mapping, Time series analysis, Red noise, Gaussian Processes regression, Astronomy software, 16, 2019, 1916, 1956, 1930, 1855, Astrophysics of Galaxies, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
             year = 2026,
            month = feb,
           volume = {998},
           number = {1},
              eid = {144},
            pages = {144},
              doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ae28d3},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
           eprint = {2511.21479},
    }

and the Zenodo code repository: `10.5281/zenodo.17467662 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17467662>`__.

Acknowledgements
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``EzTaoX`` is built on top of (and inspired by) `tinygp <https://github.com/dfm/tinygp>`__, 
a general purpose GP modeling framework written in ``JAX``. 
For more general GP modeling tasks, experienced users can directly explore ``tinygp``.