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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Splines classes with :mod:`~astropy.units` support.

`scipy` [scipy]_, [Dierckx]_ splines do not support quantities with units.
The standard workaround solution is to strip the quantities of their units,
apply the interpolation, then add the units back. We can do better.


References

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Texas 2019 Notes

By: Nathaniel Starkman

EHT Plenary Lecture

• Many SMBHs do not have an accretion disk, but rather a large gas structure. Mostly radio emission. Self-absorption synchrotron radiation.
• When look in millimeter see the BH because dust is very wavelength sensitive
• So much data had to physically ship the data (5 petabytes in 5 days)
• From data to image: pixel-based model where each pixel is a free parameter
  • minimize $\chi^2$ for sum of all pixels
  • find BH, accretion disk, N-S asymmetry

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