gyrointerp 0.3

Gyrochronology via interpolation of open cluster rotation sequences.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted at gyro-interp.readthedocs.io. A minimal example to get you started is below.

Install

Preferred installation method is through PyPI:

pip install gyrointerp

Minimal Example

Given a single star's rotation period, effective temperature, and uncertainties, what is the gyrochronological age posterior over a grid spanning 0 to 2.6 Gyr?

  import numpy as np
  from gyrointerp import gyro_age_posterior

  # units: days
  Prot, Prot_err = 11, 0.2

  # units: kelvin
  Teff, Teff_err = 4500, 100

  # uniformly spaced grid between 0 and 2600 megayears
  age_grid = np.linspace(0, 2600, 500)

  # calculate the age posterior - takes ~30 seconds
  age_posterior = gyro_age_posterior(
      Prot, Teff, Prot_err=Prot_err, Teff_err=Teff_err, age_grid=age_grid
  )

  # calculate dictionary of summary statistics
  from gyrointerp import get_summary_statistics
  result = get_summary_statistics(age_grid, age_posterior)

  print(f"Age = {result['median']} +{result['+1sigma']} -{result['-1sigma']} Myr.")

The documentation contains more extensive examples, as well as discussion of important caveats.