Octofitter
Octofitter is a Julia package for performing Bayesian inference against a wide variety of exoplanet / binary star data. You can also use Octofitter from Python using the Python guide.
Octofitter is under active development and is only tested with the latest stable julia release (currently 1.10)
Supported data:
- Fit exoplanet orbits to relative astrometry
- Fit radial velocity data
- Model stellar activity with Gaussian processes
- Model stellar astrometric accerlation (Gaia-Hipparcos proper motion anomaly)
- "De-orbiting": combine a sequence of images with orbital motion to detect planets
- Sample directly from images or interferometric visibilities
- Experimental support for transit data based on Transits.jl
You can freely combine any of the above data types. Any and all combinations work together.
Modelling features:
- multiple planets (one or more)
- hyperbolic orbits
- co-planar, and non-coplanar systems
- arbitrary priors and parameterizations
- optional O'Neil "observable based priors"
- link mass to photometry via atmosphere models
- hierarchical models (with a bit of work from the user)
Speed:
Fit astrometry on your laptop in seconds!
- Highly optimized code and derivatives are generated from your model
- Higher order sampler (No U-Turn sampler) which explores the parameter space very efficiently
- The sampler is automatically warmed up using a variational approximation from the Pathfinder algorithm (Pathfinder.jl)
Multi-body physics is not currently supported. A Pull-request to PlanetOrbits.jl implementing this functionality would be welcome.
See also: the python libraries Orbitize!, orvara, and exoplanet.
Read the paper
In addition to these documentation and tutorial pages, you can read the paper published in the Astronomical Journal (open-access).
Attribution
- If you use Octofitter in your work, please cite Thompson et al:
@article{Thompson_2023,
doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/acf5cc},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acf5cc},
year = {2023},
month = {sep},
publisher = {The American Astronomical Society},
volume = {166},
number = {4},
pages = {164},
author = {William Thompson and Jensen Lawrence and Dori Blakely and Christian Marois and Jason Wang and Mosé Giordano and Timothy Brandt and Doug Johnstone and Jean-Baptiste Ruffio and S. Mark Ammons and Katie A. Crotts and Clarissa R. Do Ó and Eileen C. Gonzales and Malena Rice},
title = {Octofitter: Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Orbit Modeling to Detect Exoplanets},
journal = {The Astronomical Journal},
}
- If you use Gaia parallaxes in your work, please cite Gaia DR3 Gaia Collaboration et al. 2023
- Please cite the HMC sampler backend if you use
octofit
: Xu et al 2020 - Please cite the Pigeons paper if you use
octofit_pigeons
. - If you use Hipparcos-GAIA proper motion anomaly, please cite Brandt 2021
- If you use example data in one of the tutorials, please cite the sources listed
- If you use one of the included functions for automatically retreiving data from a public dataset, eg HARPS RVBank, please cite the source as appropriate (it will be displayed in the terminal)
- If you adopt the O'Neil et al. 2019 observable based priors, please cite O'Neil et al. 2019.
- If you use RV phase folded plot, please consider citing Makie.jl Danisch & Krumbiegel, (2021).
- If you use the pairplot/cornerplot functionality, please cite:
@misc{Thompson2023,
author = {William Thompson},
title = {{PairPlots.jl} Beautiful and flexible visualizations of high dimensional data},
year = {2023},
howpublished = {\url{https://sefffal.github.io/PairPlots.jl/dev}},
}
Ready?
Ready to get started? Follow our installation guide and then follow our first tutorial.