VESPA 0.2.1

Calculate astrophysical false positive probabilities for transiting exoplanet signals

Validation of Exoplanet Signals using a Probabilistic Algorithm— calculating false positive probabilities for transit signals

For usage and more info, check out the documentation.

Installation

To install, you can get the most recently released version from PyPI:

pip install vespa [--user]

Or you can clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/timothydmorton/vespa.git
cd vespa
python setup.py install [--user]

The --user argument may be necessary if you don’t have root privileges.

Depends on typical scientific packages (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas), as well as isochrones, and (in several corners of the code), another package of mine called simpledist. All dependencies should get resolved upon install, though this has only been tested under the anaconda Python distribution, which has all the scientific stuff already well-organized.

Attribution

If you use this code, please cite the following paper:

@ARTICLE{2012ApJ...761....6M,
author = {{Morton}, T.~D.},
title = "{An Efficient Automated Validation Procedure for Exoplanet Transit Candidates}",
journal = {\apj},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
eprint = {1206.1568},
primaryClass = "astro-ph.EP",
keywords = {planetary systems, stars: statistics },
year = 2012,
month = dec,
volume = 761,
eid = {6},
pages = {6},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/6},
adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...761....6M},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}