CITATION.cff

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message: "Please cite the following works when using this software: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ascl.soft02006K"
authors:
- family-names: Kiehlmann
  given-names: Sebastian
title: "polarizationtools: Polarization analysis and simulation tools in python"
version: PLACEHOLDER
date-released: PLACEHOLDER
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   value: "2402.006"
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   value: "2024ascl.soft02006K"
abstract: "polarizationtools converts, analyzes, and simulates polarization data. The different python scripts (1) convert Stokes parameters into linear polarization parameters with proper treatment of the uncertainties and vice versa; (2) shift electric vector position angle (EVPA) data points in time series to account for the 180 degrees ambiguity; (3) identify rotations of the EVPA e.g. in blazar polarization monitoring data according to various rotation definitions; and (4) simulate polarization time series as a random walk in the Stokes Q-U plane."