brutus v0.8.3

This release archives the brutus version used to generate the DECaPS 3D dust map, built on stellar inference performed on > 700 million stars with the MIST models.

Compared to v0.8.2, this version:

• Improves posterior clipping
• Implements several memory/runtime improvements to allow users to cap memory usage when fitting
• Implements a modified disk smoothing prior

brutus v0.8.2

This version implements various speed improvements to brutus. It is now ~ 2x faster. numba is now a required dependency.

This version is also the first version to be available on pip. You can install with

pip install astro-brutus

The following changes have been made

• A homemade multivariate sampler is used now which can handle multiple covariance matrices, much faster than looping over numpy's
• Some of the more compute-intensive portions of the code have been optimized using numba.
• General code reorganization and refactoring. Some user-facing variables have been renamed.

This also removes parallel support.

brutus v0.7.5

This release archives the brutus version used in the first big "proof-of-concept" production run over 170M stars.

brutus v0.7.0

Creating a Zenodo link and DOI for this.