STARRY: Analytic computation of occultation light curves
Abstract
STARRY computes light curves for various applications in astronomy: transits and secondary eclipses of exoplanets, light curves of eclipsing binaries, rotational phase curves of exoplanets, light curves of planet-planet and planet-moon occultations, and more. By modeling celestial body surface maps as sums of spherical harmonics, STARRY does all this analytically and is therefore fast, stable, and differentiable. Coded in C++ but wrapped in Python, STARRY is easy to install and use.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- October 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018ascl.soft10005L
- Keywords:
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- Software;
- NASA;
- Spitzer;
- JWST