whereistheplanet 1.0

predict exoplanet locations

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Prediciting the position of exoplanets. Web version is available at https://www.whereistheplanet.com/. Credit: Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt.

Install

Requires orbitize! (https://github.com/sblunt/orbitize/) and git-lfs to pull the posteriors. After you clone the repositroy and use git lfs pull to pull the posteriors, install using

pip install -e .

This creates a script whereistheplanet that you can call from anywhere in the terminal.

If you have issues running whereistheplanet on your machine, you can check out the querytheplanet package.

Tutorial

Open a terminal window and run

whereistheplanet hr8799b

If you want the planet location at a particular date.

whereistheplanet hr8799b --time 2019-01-01

To see all of the planets currently supported:

whereistheplanet --list

Attribution

If you used this for your research, please cite the ASCL entry of it:

Wang, J. J., Kulikauskas, M., Blunt, S. 2021, Astrophysics Source Code Library, ascl:2101.003