exoplanet : gradient-based probabilistic inference for exoplanet data & other astronomical time series
Abstract
"exoplanet" is a toolkit for probabilistic modeling of astronomical time series data, with a focus on observations of exoplanets, using PyMC3 (Salvatier et al., 2016). PyMC3 is a flexible and high-performance model-building language and inference engine that scales well to problems with a large number of parameters. "exoplanet" extends PyMC3's modeling language to support many of the custom functions and probability distributions required when fitting exoplanet datasets or other astronomical time series. While it has been used for other applications, such as the study of stellar variability, the primary purpose of "exoplanet" is the characterization of exoplanets or multiple star systems using time-series photometry, astrometry, and/or radial velocity. In particular, the typical use case would be to use one or more of these datasets to place constraints on the physical and orbital parameters of the system, such as planet mass or orbital period, while simultaneously taking into account the effects of stellar variability.
Citation
Foreman-Mackey , D , Luger , R , Agol , E , Barclay , T , Bouma , L , Brandt , T , Czekala , I , David , T , Dong , J , Gilbert , E , Gordon , T , Hedges , C , Hey , D , Morris , B , Price-Whelan , A & Savel , A 2021 , ' exoplanet : gradient-based probabilistic inference for exoplanet data & other astronomical time series ' , Journal of Open Source Software , vol. 6 , no. 62 , 3285 . https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03285
Publication
Journal of Open Source Software
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2475-9066Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: This research was partially conducted during the Exostar19 program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, which was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958.Collections
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