backtracks 0.3.0

Python package to fit relative astrometry with background star motion tracks.

backtrack

Python package to fit relative astrometry with background star motion tracks.

Written by Gilles Otten (@gotten), William Balmer (@wbalmer), and Tomas Stolker (@tomasstolker).

Work in progress, as of Jun. 15th, 2023.

eDR3 Distance prior summary file from this source, published in Bailer-Jones+2021.

Current example (HD131399Ab) uses data from Wagner+22 and Nielsen+17. Thank you to Kevin Wagner for providing the latest astrometry!

Log-likelihood borrowed heavily from orbitize! (BSD 3-clause).

Currently requires and python 3.9 ish and astropy, corner, dynesty, matplotlib, numpy, novas, novas_de405, orbitize and their dependencies. Note that novas is not supported on Windows. You can create a working environment using conda+pip via a few lines of code:

conda create python=3.9 -n backtrack
conda activate backtrack
conda install pip
git clone https://github.com/wbalmer/backtrack.git
cd backtrack
pip install -e .

Then, test your installation (takes a while to sample fully):

cd tests
python hd131399a.py