“SMART: spectral energy distributions Markov chain analysis with radiative transfer models”

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Posted on April 30, 2024

I am thrilled to announce the publication of our research article “SMART: spectral energy distributions Markov chain analysis with radiative transfer models” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In summary, SMART (Spectral energy distributions Markov chain Analysis with Radiative Transfer models) is a publicly available open-source spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code. Implementing a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, SMART fits the ultraviolet to millimetre SEDs of galaxies exclusively with radiative transfer models that currently constitute four types of pre-computed libraries, which describe the starburst, active galactic nucleus (AGN) torus, host galaxy and polar dust components. SMART promises to be a useful tool for studying galaxy evolution in the JWST era. For more details, please read the article. The code is available on the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) or on GitHub.

For this work we acknowledge support from the projects CYGNUS and CYGNUS+ funded by the European Space Agency.