Community guidelines

PRISM is an open-source and free-to-use software package (and it always will be), provided under the BSD-3 license (see below for the full license).

Users are highly encouraged to make contributions to the package or request new features by opening a GitHub issue. If you would like to contribute to the package, but do not know what, then there are quite a few ToDos in the code that may give you some inspiration. As with contributions, if you find a problem or issue with PRISM, please do not hesitate to open a GitHub issue about it or post it on Gitter. Keep in mind that issues solely related to the v1.0.x branch are given a lower priority.

And, finally, if you use PRISM as part of your workflow in a scientific publication, please consider including an acknowledgement like “Parts of the results in this work were derived using the PRISM Python package.” and citing the PRISM pipeline paper:

@ARTICLE{2019ApJS..242...22V,
    author = {{van der Velden}, E. and {Duffy}, A.~R. and {Croton}, D. and
        {Mutch}, S.~J. and {Sinha}, M.},
    title = "{Model dispersion with PRISM; an alternative to MCMC for rapid analysis of models}",
    journal = {\apjs},
    keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Computational Physics},
    year = "2019",
    month = "Jun",
    volume = {242},
    number = {2},
    eid = {22},
    pages = {22},
    doi = {10.3847/1538-4365/ab1f7d},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {1901.08725},
    primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
    adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..242...22V},
    adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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