The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry and repository for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists, including solar system astronomers, and lists codes that have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. The ASCL is indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science and is citable by using the unique ascl ID assigned to each code. The ascl ID can be used to link to the code entry by prefacing the number with ascl.net (i.e., ascl.net/1201.001).
CLUES (CLustering UnsupErvised with Sequencer) analyzes spectral and IFU data. This fully interpretable clustering tool uses machine learning to classify and reduce the effective dimensionality of data sets. It combines multiple unsupervised clustering methods with multiscale distance measures using Sequencer (ascl:2105.006) to find representative end-member spectra that can be analyzed with detailed mineralogical modeling and follow-up observations. CLUES has been used on Spitzer IRS data and debris disk science, and can be applied to other high-dimensional spectral data sets, including mineral spectroscopy in general areas of astrophysics and remote sensing.
Bjet_MCMC automatically models multiwavelength spectral energy distributions of blazars, considering one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model with or without the addition of external inverse-Compton process from the thermal emission of the nucleus. The code also contains manual fitting functionalities for multi-zone SSC modeling. Bjet_MCMC is built as an MCMC python wrapper around the C++ code Bjet.
pynchrotron implements synchrotron emission from cooling electrons. It removes the need for GSL which was originally relied on for a quick computation of the synchrotron kernel. The code has been ported from GSL and written directly in python as well as accelerated with numba. pynchrotron also includes an astromodels (ascl:2506.019) function for direct use in 3ML (ascl:2506.018).
Astromodels defines models for likelihood or Bayesian analysis of astrophysical data. Though designed for analysis in the spectral domain, it can also be used as a toolbox containing functions of any variable. Astromodels is not a modeling package; it provides the tools to build a model as complex as one needs. A separate package such as 3ML (ascl:2506.018) is needed to fit the model to the data.
The Multi-Mission Maximum Likelihood framework (3ML) provides a common high-level interface and model definition for coherent and intuitive modeling of sources using all the available data, no matter their origin. Astrophysical sources are observed by different instruments at different wavelengths with an unprecedented quality, and each instrument and data type has its own ad-hoc software and handling procedure. 3ML's architecture is based on plug-ins; the package uses the official software of each instrument under the hood, thus guaranteeing that 3ML is always using the best possible methodology to deal with the data of each instrument. Though Maximum Likelihood is in the name for historical reasons, 3ML is an interface to several Bayesian inference algorithms such as MCMC and nested sampling as well as likelihood optimization algorithms.
Hydromass analyzes galaxy cluster mass profiles from X-ray and/or Sunyaev-Zel’dovich observations. It provides a global Bayesian framework for deprojection and mass profile reconstruction, including mass model fitting, forward fitting with parametric and polytropic models, and non-parametric log-normal mixture reconstruction. Hydromass easily loads public X-COP data products and applies reconstruction tools directly within a Jupyter notebook.
SBI++ is a complete methodology based on simulation-based (likelihood-free) inference that is customized for astronomical applications. Specifically, the code retains the fast inference speed of ∼1 sec for objects in the observational training set distribution, and additionally permits parameter inference outside of the trained noise and data at ~1 min per object. The package includes scripts for training and implementing SBI++ and is dependent on sbi (ascl:2306.002).
Octofitter performs Bayesian inference against a wide variety of exoplanet and binary star data. It is highly modular and allows users to easily adjust priors, change parameterizations, and specify arbitrary function relations between the parameters of one or more planets. Octofitter further supplies tools for examining model outputs including prior and posterior predictive checks and simulation based calibration.
M_-M_K- converts absolute 2MASS Ks-band magnitude (or a distance and a Ks-band magnitude) into an estimate of the stellar mass using the empirical relation derived from the resolved photometry and orbits of astrometric binaries. The code requires scalar values for K, distance, and corresponding uncertainties. M_-M_K- outputs errors based on the relationship's scatter and errors in the provided distance and Ks magnitude.
This One-Class Support Vector Machine (SVM) model detects exoplanet transit events. One-class SVMs fit data and make predictions faster than simple CNNs, and do not require specialized equipment such as Graphics Processing Units (GPU). The code uses a Gaussian kernel to compute a nonlinear decision boundary. After training, OCSVM-Transit-Detection requires that lightcurves classified as containing a transit have features very similar to the lightcurves in the training dataset, thus limiting misclassifications.