Prediciting the position of exoplanets. Web version is available at https://www.whereistheplanet.com/. Credit: Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt.
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
python setup.py develop
This creates a script whereistheplanet
that you can call from anywhere in the terminal.
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
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