Citation

If you use this package or the scripts in the repository in a publication, please reference Polzin (2025). Users may also wish to add a footnote linking to https://github.com/avapolzin/spike and/or consider adding this software to your acknowledgments.

spike relies on many other pieces of software. Please also credit the following codes/papers (if the stated condition is met):

• if you use spike with HST data: drizzlepac (Hoffmann et al. 2021)

• if you use spike with JWST data: jwst (Bushouse et al. 2024)

• if you use spike with Roman data: romancal (Roman calibration pipeline developers 2024)

• if you use TinyTim model PSFs: TinyTim (Krist et al. 2011)

• if you use TinyTim model PSFs with the Gillis et al. modification: TinyTim (Krist et al. 2011) + Gillis et al. (2020)

• if you use STPSF (formerly WebbPSF) model PSFs: STPSF (Perrin et al. 2025), WebbPSF (Perrin et al. 2012; 2014; 2024)

• if you use PSFEx to generate empirical PSFs: PSFEx (Bertin 2011) and SExtractor (Bertin & Arnauts 1996)

• if you use ePSFs: photutils (Bradley et al. 2024) and Anderson & King (2000)/Anderson (2016)

• if you use STDPSFs: photutils (Bradley et al. 2024) and Anderson (2016) + the relevant instrument paper – MIRI (Libralato et al. 2024); NIRISS (Libralato et al. 2023)

• if you use ACS/WFC Focus-Diverse ePSFs: acstools (Lim et al. 2022), Bellini et al. (2018), and Anand et al. (2023)

Note that the BibTeX for most of these references is included in the spike paper.bib.

See a (mostly) complete and up-to-date list of papers that cite spike here.