Citations & References

The bibtex entries for PyAutoGalaxy and its affiliated software packages can be found here, with example text for citing PyAutoGalaxy in .tex format here format here and .md format here.

PyAutoGalaxy is published in the Journal of Open Source Software and its entry in the above .bib file is under the citation key pyautogalaxy.

As shown in the examples, we would greatly appreciate it if you mention PyAutoGalaxy by name and include a link to our GitHub page!

You should also specify the non-linear search(es) you use in your analysis (e.g. Dynesty, Emcee, PySwarms, etc) in the main body of text, and delete as appropriate any packages your analysis did not use. The citations.bib file includes the citation key for all of these projects.

Jax-Zero-Contour

If you use the zero-contour method for critical curve and caustic computation (the default in visualize/general.yaml via critical_curves_method: zero_contour), please cite the Jax-Zero-Contour package by Coleman Krawczyk:

@software{coleman_krawczyk_2025_15730415,
  author       = {Coleman Krawczyk},
  title        = {CKrawczyk/Jax-Zero-Contour: Version 2.0.0},
  month        = jun,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v2.0.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15730415},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15730415},
}

The package is available at https://github.com/CKrawczyk/Jax-Zero-Contour and archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15730415.

NUFFTax

If you fit interferometer datasets on the JAX path, the non-uniform FFT is performed by nufftax, a pure-JAX NUFFT implementation by the GragasLab team. Please cite the package:

@software{nufftax,
  author = {Gragas and Oudoumanessah, Geoffroy and Iollo, Jacopo},
  title  = {nufftax: Pure JAX implementation of the Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform},
  url    = {https://github.com/GragasLab/nufftax},
  year   = {2026},
}

nufftax’s algorithm is based on FINUFFT (Flatiron Institute); the upstream paper should also be cited:

@article{finufft,
  author  = {Barnett, Alexander H. and Magland, Jeremy F. and af Klinteberg, Ludvig},
  title   = {A parallel non-uniform fast Fourier transform library based on an
             'exponential of semicircle' kernel},
  journal = {SIAM J. Sci. Comput.},
  volume  = {41},
  number  = {5},
  pages   = {C479--C504},
  year    = {2019},
}

The package is available at https://github.com/GragasLab/nufftax.

Dynesty

If you used the nested sampling algorithm Dynesty, please follow the citation instructions on the dynesty readthedocs.