Phosphoros User Manual

• 1. Download and Installation
  • 1.1. Installation on Linux and Mac OS systems
  • 1.2. Installation from source
• 2. Quickstart in 15 minutes
  • 2.1. Template fitting in two words
  • 2.2. Getting the quickstart data
  • 2.3. Executing Phosphoros
  • 2.4. Examining the input catalog
  • 2.5. Examining the parameter space
  • 2.6. Building the grid of models
  • 2.7. Compute photometric redshifts
  • 2.8. Visualizing the results
  • 2.9. Summary
• 3. Basic steps
  • 3.1. Phosphoros overview
  • 3.2. Important concepts and data setup
  • 3.3. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) execution mode
  • 3.4. The Command Line Interface (CLI) execution mode
  • 3.5. Examining results
• 4. Advanced Features
  • 4.1. How to modify the default directory structure
  • 4.2. Emission Lines
  • 4.3. Galactic absorption correction in the CLI
  • 4.4. Filter Variation Correction
  • 4.5. SED weights
  • 4.6. SED interpolation
  • 4.7. Redshift Distribution Priors
  • 4.8. Volume Prior
  • 4.9. Luminosity Priors
  • 4.10. Generic Priors
  • 4.11. Photometric Zero-Point Corrections
  • 4.12. SED Normalization (Scale Factor)
  • 4.13. Physical Parameters
  • 4.14. Posterior Investigation
  • 4.15. Additional Functionalities in the CLI
• 5. Methodology
  • 5.1. Templates
  • 5.2. Intrinsic interstellar dust absorption
  • 5.3. Intergalactic medium absorption
  • 5.4. Redshifting of the restframe templates
  • 5.5. Applying filter trasmission curves
  • 5.6. Galactic Absorption
  • 5.7. Template fitting method
  • 5.8. Bayesian inference and Priors
• 6. File format
  • 6.1. Input files
  • 6.2. Intermediate Products
  • 6.3. Results
• 2. Data Repository (under construction)