Citations / Acknowledgements

If you use LightCurveLynx in your research, we ask that you cite the following papers:

• Dai et. al. 2026 “LightCurveLynx: Forward Modeling of Time-Domain Surveys with Application to ZTF SN Ia DR2” (in review; see arxiv.org/abs/2604.07134 )

• Kubica et. al. 2026 “LightCurveLynx: Fast and Nimble Time Domain Simulation for Astronomical Surveys” (in review)

LightCurveLynx relies on numerous open source packages to perform the computation. Please make sure to cite the packages that your study uses.

Base Libraries

The following libraries are used by most LightCurveLynx runs:

• astropy

• nested-pandas

• numpy

• pandas

• pooch

• sncosmo

Some runs may also use:

• jax

• matplotlib

• scipy

Models, Effects, and Parameters

LightCurveLynx builds on a large collection of open source astronomy software for models and effects, each of which may have its own citation requirements and dependencies. Which models, effects, and parameters used will vary from simulation to simulation. LightCurveLynx includes citation information in class and function docstrings to help users identify relevant citations.

As an example, consider the dust extinction effect. LightCurveLynx supports a variety of external dustmaps libraries, but was primarily designed to work with the dustmaps package (Green 2018). The dust extinction is computed via the ExtinctionEffect which uses the dust_extinction package (Gordon 2024) or the extinction package (Barbary et. al. 2017). In addition, each individual dustmap and extinction function should be cited from their original science paper. The dustmaps readthedocs page provides more information on the available dustmaps and their citations.

Citation-Compass

LightCurveLynx also uses the LINCC Frameworks citation_compass package to track (specifically annotated) citations encountered during your simulations. Since Citation-Compass requires explicit annotations, it will include packages used by LightCurveLynx (such as dustmaps), but not the references on which they depend (such as the dustmaps themselves).

For more information on how to use this package, please refer to the citations notebook.