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Elómë  Elómë in Tengwar

Analytic, differentiable transit light curves on Apple Silicon.

Documentation License: MIT

Elómë computes exoplanet transit light curves exactly and in closed form, with analytic gradients in every parameter. It runs on MLX, in float32 on the Apple-Silicon GPU through fused Metal kernels, or in float64 on the CPU. It models spherical planets with uniform, linear, quadratic, polynomial and hybrid limb darkening, and oblate planets with the hybrid laws, which keep their light curves elementary. The frontend follows batman.

Elómë (eh-LOH-meh) is Quenya for "star-dimness".

Installation

pip install elome

Elómë needs a Mac with Apple Silicon for its GPU kernels, Python 3.10 or later, MLX and NumPy.

Example

import numpy as np
import elome

params = elome.TransitParams()
params.t0, params.per, params.rp, params.a = 0.0, 3.0, 0.1, 10.0
params.inc, params.ecc, params.w = 88.0, 0.0, 90.0
params.limb_dark, params.u = "quadratic", [0.4, 0.25]

t = np.linspace(-0.1, 0.1, 1000)
flux = elome.TransitModel(params, t).light_curve(params)

Documentation

elome.readthedocs.io: installation, guides for spherical and oblate planets, fitting with samplers, tutorials and the API reference.

Citation

If Elómë contributes to your research, please cite the Elómë paper (Kipping, in preparation, Journal of Open Source Software). If you use the hybrid limb-darkening laws or oblate planets, please also cite the hybrid-law papers, also in preparation; see Citing Elómë.

License

MIT; see LICENSE.

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