Citations

If you use this code in your work, please (pending entry for the JOSS submission) use the following BibTeX entries for citation:

@misc{piaulet_stctm_2024,
    author       = {Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb},
    title        = {{stctm: Stellar contamination retrievals and modeling for small planet transmission spectra}},
    month        = aug,
    year         = 2024,
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.13153251},
    version      = {1.0.0},
    publisher    = {Zenodo},
    url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13153251}
}

@ARTICLE{piaulet-ghorayeb_gj9827_2024,
    author = {{Piaulet-Ghorayeb}, Caroline and {Benneke}, Bj{"o}rn and {Radica}, Michael and {Raul}, Eshan and {Coulombe}, Louis-Philippe and {Ahrer}, Eva-Maria and {Kubyshkina}, Daria and {Howard}, Ward S. and {Krissansen-Totton}, Joshua and {MacDonald}, Ryan J. and {Roy}, Pierre-Alexis and {Louca}, Amy and {Christie}, Duncan and {Fournier-Tondreau}, Marylou and {Allart}, Romain and {Miguel}, Yamila and {Schlichting}, Hilke E. and {Welbanks}, Luis and {Cadieux}, Charles and {Dorn}, Caroline and {Evans-Soma}, Thomas M. and {Fortney}, Jonathan J. and {Pierrehumbert}, Raymond and {Lafreni{`e}re}, David and {Acu{~n}a}, Lorena and {Komacek}, Thaddeus and {Innes}, Hamish and {Beatty}, Thomas G. and {Cloutier}, Ryan and {Doyon}, Ren{'e} and {Gagnebin}, Anna and {Gapp}, Cyril and {Knutson}, Heather A.},
    title = {JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich ``Steam World'' Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d},
    journal = {\apjl},
    keywords = {Exoplanet atmospheres, Exoplanet atmospheric composition, Exoplanet atmospheric evolution, Exoplanet structure, Planetary atmospheres, Exoplanet astronomy, 487, 2021, 2308, 495, 1244, 486, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
    year = 2024,
    month = oct,
    volume = {974},
    number = {1},
    eid = {L10},
    pages = {L10},
    doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00}
}

If you use the exotune submodule, please cite the following paper describing it:

@ARTICLE{2025arXiv250808416P,
       author = {{Piaulet-Ghorayeb}, Caroline and {Benneke}, Bj{"o}rn and {Turbet}, Martin and {Moore}, Keavin and {Roy}, Pierre-Alexis and {Lim}, Olivia and {Doyon}, Ren{'e} and {Fauchez}, Thomas J. and {Albert}, Lo{"i}c and {Radica}, Michael and {Coulombe}, Louis-Philippe and {Lafreni{`e}re}, David and {Cowan}, Nicolas B. and {Belzile}, Danika and {Musfirat}, Kamrul and {Kaur}, Mehramat and {L'Heureux}, Alexandrine and {Johnstone}, Doug and {MacDonald}, Ryan J. and {Allart}, Romain and {Dang}, Lisa and {Kaltenegger}, Lisa and {Pelletier}, Stefan and {Rowe}, Jason F. and {Taylor}, Jake and {Turner}, Jake D.},
        title = "{Strict limits on potential secondary atmospheres on the temperate rocky exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
         year = 2025,
        month = aug,
          eid = {arXiv:2508.08416},
        pages = {arXiv:2508.08416},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2508.08416},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250808416P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Additional Citations

If you use MSG for your stellar models, please also cite their JOSS paper https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04.

In any case, please cite where you obtained the stellar models from. You may also cite the libraries that stctm relies on as dependencies: NumPy, scipy, emcee, corner, astropy, h5py, matplotlib, pandas, pysynphot, and tqdm.