.. _acknowledgements: Team and acknowledgements ------------------------- Below we acknowledge people who have contributed explicitly and implicitly to the development of X-PSI. If you wish to have your name removed, please notify the X-PSI :ref:`team`. Please also prompt us to update this page if you have engaged with this project: your time is a resource we wish to acknowledge. Specific patch or feature acknowledgements are often reported in the project :ref:`history` (CHANGELOG). Affiliations and contact details are only listed for team members to ease maintainability. .. _team: Core team ~~~~~~~~~ Those involved in maintenance and development (technical and scientific). **Current active members** * Devarshi Choudhury (d.choudhury[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam * Bas Dorsman (b.dorsman[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam * Sebastien Guillot (sebastien.guillot[at]irap.omp.eu), IRAP * Daniela Huppenkothen (d.huppenkothen[at]sron.nl), SRON * Yves Kini (y.kini[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam * Tuomo Salmi (t.h.j.salmi[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam * Serena Vinciguerra (s.vinciguerra[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam * Anna Watts (a.l.watts[at]uva.nl), University of Amsterdam **Past members** Thomas E. Riley (t.riley.phd[at]gmail.com), the Initial Creator of X-PSI .. _community: Community ~~~~~~~~~ Folks who have used X-PSI in their research or engaged with the team during development and science analysis, thereby prompting fixes or improvements. * Matteo Bacchetti * Anna Bilous * Erik Bootsma * Johannes Buchner * Yuri Cavecchi * Frank Chambers * Alex Chen * Julia Deneva * Siem Fenne * Gwénaël Loyer * Geert Raaijmakers * Paul Ray * Evert Rol * Rahul Silié * Emma van der Wateren * Bob de Witte * The NICER collaboration **Miscellaneous** Specific acknowledgements of people whose direct advice either influenced the direction of this project or led to some specific improvements. * `CythonGSL `_ header file * Existing open-source projects (which are either external dependencies or served as examples during the development of this project, such as *emcee* and *stingray*) * Daniela Huppenkothen (for pointing towards nested sampling algorithms and for abstract discussion of the statistical framework underlying X-PSI) * Will M. Farr & Ilya Mandel (for advice about posterior computation validation, and about model space definitions) * Will M. Farr (for ideas to accelerate likelihood function evaluation; WIP) * Sam Geen (for expanding support to include Windows OS) * Martin Heemskerk, Jeroen Roodhart and the SurfSARA servicedesk (for help with HPC issues). Literature ~~~~~~~~~~ This project is built upon the work of many researchers in many fields. For citations to (astro)physics and (astro)statistics literature, please see the technical documents pointed to in the :ref:`citation` section. Moreover, we point to the bibliograpy of `Riley et al. 2019 `_ as the first published application of the X-PSI package, and to the `ApJL Focus Issue `_ of which this article is a member. For other scientific papers that have used X-PSI see :ref:`applications`. .. _funding: Funding ~~~~~~~ Development of X-PSI has been funded by two ERC Grants (PI Anna Watts), ERC Starting Grant No. 639217 CSINEUTRONSTAR and ERC Consolidator Grant No. 865768 AEONS.