User guide

The user guide explains what each part of lazuli_exo computes and, with equal weight, what it deliberately does not. It complements the auto-generated API reference, which gives exact signatures and docstrings.

If you read only one page, read Concepts and known approximations.

• Concepts and known approximations
  • The measurement in one page
  • The two-stage architecture
  • Known approximations
  • The caveats live in the data
  • The upgrade paths
• Spectra and scenarios
  • Scenarios
  • The flat baseline
  • The model grid
  • Binning
• The noise model
  • What observe() does with it
  • The two resolution limits
  • What the tables assume
  • Equal out-of-transit baseline
  • Bright hosts: unvalidated uncertainties
• The template statistic
  • What it computes
  • What it is not
  • Per-band values
  • A worked warning: why hazy can beat clear
  • How to use it responsibly
  • The upgrade path
• Transit light curves
  • The observation window
  • The occultation model
  • Geometry
  • The trapezoid fallback
  • Per-point noise
  • Fields on LightCurveSet
• Plotting
  • A spectrum
  • Overlaying scenarios
  • The error bar against wavelength
  • Light curves
  • Tiling
  • Keywords
• Tables and targets
  • Layout
  • The index
  • Resolving the tables directory
  • Loading tables
  • The target registry
  • Regenerating the tables
  • Caveat flags recorded in the data
• The parametric model
  • Inputs
  • Physics
  • Conventions worth knowing
  • Validation
  • What it cannot do
• Web applet and the web contract
  • Local Flask applet
  • The web contract

If you prefer to learn by example, the Tutorials cover the same material as runnable notebooks.